Electrophysiological evidence for two steps in syntactic analysis: Early automatic and late controlled processes

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 194-205

  Hahne, Anja ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0032904143     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563328     Document Type: Article

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