On processing BEASTS and BIRDS: An event-related potential study on the representation of taxonomic structure

Brain and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-82

  Schlaghecken, Friederike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Institut für Psychologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; TAXONOMY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032146568     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1998.1957     Document Type: Article

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