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Event-related oscillatory brain activity during language perception differs from activity occurring during the processing of comparable non-language stimuli. This fact became apparent in the observation of changes in the normalized spectral power of magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals during the subject's processing of these stimuli. MEG was recorded over the left and right hemispheres of 12 right-handed subjects. During the experimental session, bisyllablic content words and physically similar non-language stimuli were presented with equal probability in a randomized order in either the visual or auditory modality. Approximately 15% of these stimuli were marked and the subject's task was to detect these marked stimuli. As a major characteristic of language vs. non-language processing, we obtained an enhancement of the normalized spectral power around 240 ms in the 60-65-Hz band over the left hemisphere for the language condition and over the right hemisphere for the non-language condition, independent of the modality of stimulus presentation. Starting at approximately the same latency but in lower-frequency bands (15-45-Hz), an extended (250-600 ms) reduction of normalized spect

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Author

Carsten Eulitz; Burkhard Maess; Christo Pantev; Angela D. Friederici; Bernd Feige; Thomas Elbert

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)