Essays about: "event-relaterade potentialer"
Found 3 essays containing the words event-relaterade potentialer.
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1. Word-form recognition in 6-month-olds? Using event-related potentials to study the influence of infant-directed speech
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : By 4.5 months infants listen longer to their names compared to matched foils, which is the earliest empirically demonstrated sign of word-form recognition. This ability develops gradually in the first year of life and becomes increasingly advanced. READ MORE
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2. Neuronal activity to environmental sounds when presented together with semantically related words : An MMN study on monolingual and bilingual processing of homophones
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : Neuronal activity of monolingual and bilinguals to environmental sounds and words that are semantically related to them were studied using the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of event-related potentials. MMN was expected to reflect the language selection process in bilinguals on the bases of semantics and phonology. READ MORE
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3. BRAIN ACTIVITY EFFECTS OF AWARENESS FOR EVOLUTIONARILY THREATENING STIMULI INVESTIGATING THE SNAKE DECTECTION HYPOTHESIS : INVESTIGATING THE SNAKE DETECTION HYPOTHESIS
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : Snakes are probably the best example of evolutionarily life-threatening stimulus as they have been one of the first predators of primates and mammals in general. In recent years, it has been shown that snake images produce specific behavioral and electrophysiological reactions in humans, provoking enhanced brain activity over the occipital cortex compared with pictures of other animals. READ MORE