Human brain potentials to violations in morphologically complex Italian words

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 83-86

  Gross, Matthias ^a   Say, Tessa ^b   Kleingers, Michael ^a   Clahsen, Harald ^b   F Münte, Thomas ^a,c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Italian; Linguistic morphology; N400

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IRELAND; ITALY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PARIETAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0032579503     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00971-3     Document Type: Article

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