Electrophysiological indices of lexical processing: The effects of verb complexity and age

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1071-1080

  Rubin, Scott S ^a   Newhoff, Marilyn ^a   Peach, Richard K ^b   Shapiro, Lewis P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Event related potentials; Lexical processing; P300; Verb complexity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0029847604     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3905.1071     Document Type: Article

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