On the language specificity of the brain response to syntactic anomalies: Is the syntactic positive shift a member of the P300 family?

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 507-526

  Osterhout, Lee ^a   McKinnon, Richard ^a   Bersick, Michael ^a   Corey, Vicka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SKIN ELECTRODE;

EID: 0030469348     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.6.507     Document Type: Article

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