Event-related potentials elicited by spoken relative clauses

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-203

  Müller, Horst M ^a,c   King, Jonathan W ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

auditory language processing; event related potential (ERP); individual difference; left anterior negativity (LAN); relative clause; slow brain potential; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030976511     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(96)00070-5     Document Type: Article

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