Integrating gender and number information in Spanish word pairs: An ERP study

Cortex

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 465-482

  Barber, Horacio ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Event Related Potentials; Gender and number agreement; Grammatical priming; N400; P300

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PHONETICS; RECORDING; SENSOR; SPAIN; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0038153178     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70259-4     Document Type: Article

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