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Direct linkVan Petten, Cyma; Luka, Barbara J. – Brain and Language, 2006
Measures of electrical brain activity (event-related potentials, ERPs) have been useful in understanding language processing for several decades. Extant data suggest that the amplitude of the N400 component of the ERP is a general index of the ease or difficulty of retrieving stored conceptual knowledge associated with a word, which is dependent…
Descriptors: Semantics, Metabolism, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing
