Human brain potentials to reading syntactic errors in sentences of different complexity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 105-108

  Münte, Thomas F ^a,b   Szentkuti, Andras ^a   Wieringa, Bernardina M ^a   Matzke, Mike ^a   Johannes, Sönke ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; N400; P600; Syntactic violation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0031576354     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00719-2     Document Type: Article

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