Differences in the perception and time course of syntactic and semantic violations

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 280-296

  De Vincenzi, Marica ^a,b   Job, Remo ^c   Di Matteo, Rosalia ^a   Angrilli, Alessandro ^c   Penolazzi, Barbara ^c   Ciccarelli, Laura ^c   Vespignani, Francesco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ERPs; Reading times; Semantics; Sentence processing; Syntax; Violations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DATA ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0038301179     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00055-5     Document Type: Article

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