Views on how the electrical activity that the brain generates reflects the functions of different language structures

Psychophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 383-398

  Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; Language; Parsing; Relative clauses; Sentence processing; Word frequency; Working memory

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0030746228     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1997.tb02382.x     Document Type: Review

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