Brain potentials and syntactic violations revisited: No evidence for specificity of the syntactic positive shift

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 217-226

  Münte, Thomas F ^a,c   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a,b   Matzke, Mike ^a   Wieringa, Bernardina M ^a   Johannes, Sönke ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; N400; P600; Semantic; Syntactic; Violation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE;

EID: 0032032676     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00119-X     Document Type: Article

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