Electrophysiological estimates of biological and syntactic gender violation during pronoun processing

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 333-346

  Schmitt, Bernadette M ^a   Lamers, Monique ^a,b   Münte, Thomas F ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender access; Language; Meaning and syntax; N400; P600; Pronoun processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX;

EID: 0036841010     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00136-2     Document Type: Article

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