Dissociating Brain Responses to Syntactic and Semantic Anomalies: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 112-130

  Ainsworth Darnell, Kim ^a   Shulman, Harvey G ^a   Boland, Julie E ^a  

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Author keywords

Event related potentials; Presentation rate.; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001702311     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1997.2537     Document Type: Article

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