Concerning the automaticity of syntactic processing

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 126-137

  Gunter, Thomas C ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automaticity; ERPs; Language; N400; P3b; P600; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032897998     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S004857729997155X     Document Type: Article

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