On the brain response to syntactic anomalies: Manipulations of word position and word class reveal individual differences

Brain and Language

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 494-522

  Osterhout, Lee ^a  

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ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030985442     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1997.1793     Document Type: Article

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