Syntax-related ERP-effects in Dutch

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-50

  Hagoort, Peter ^a,b,c   Wassenaar, Marlies ^a,b   Brown, Colin M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(L)AN; ERP; Language; N400; P600 SPS; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037362817     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00208-2     Document Type: Article

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