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SUBMITTER: MacGregor LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3543931 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
MacGregor Lucy J LJ Pulvermüller Friedemann F van Casteren Maarten M Shtyrov Yury Y
Nature communications 20120228
Rapid information processing in the human brain is vital to survival in a highly dynamic environment. The key tool humans use to exchange information is spoken language, but the exact speed of the neuronal mechanisms underpinning speech comprehension is still unknown. Here we investigate the time course of neuro-lexical processing by analyzing neuromagnetic brain activity elicited in response to psycholinguistically and acoustically matched groups of words and pseudowords. We show an ultra-early ...[more]