How the brain processes complex words: An event-related potential study of German verb inflections

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-52

  Penke, Martina ^a   Weyerts, Helga ^b   Gross, Matthias ^c   Zander, Elke ^c   Münte, Thomas F ^c,d   Clahsen, Harald ^e  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potential; Language processing; Left anterior negativity; Morphology of language; Psycholinguistics; Regular and irregular inflection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030865739     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00012-8     Document Type: Article

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