Aesthetic appreciation of poetry correlates with ease of processing in event-related potentials

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 362-373

  Obermeier, Christian ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^a,b   Jessen, Sarah ^a   Raettig, Tim ^c   von Koppenfels, Martin ^d   Menninghaus, Winfried ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EMPIRICAL AESTHETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERP; N400; Neuroaesthetics; P600; Poetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ESTHETICS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ESTHETICS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960349750     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-015-0396-x     Document Type: Article

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