Temporal structure of syntactic parsing: Early and late event-related brain potential effects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1219-1248

  Friederici, Angela D ^a,c   Hahne, Anja ^b   Mecklinger, Axel ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030238382     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.22.5.1219     Document Type: Article

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