Syntactic gender and semantic expectancy: ERPs reveal early autonomy and late interaction

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 556-568

  Gunter, Thomas C ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^b   Schriefers, Herbert ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0033866241     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892900562336     Document Type: Article

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