Processing syntactic relations in language and music: An event-related potential study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 717-733

  Patel, Aniruddh D ^a,e   Gibson, Edward ^b   Ratner, Jennifer ^c   Besson, Mireille ^d   Holcomb, Phillip J ^c  

^a Neurosciences Institute

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CNRS CRCN   (France)

^e NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MUSIC; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MUSIC;

EID: 0031743344     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892998563121     Document Type: Article

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