Potato not Pope: Human brain potentials to gender expectation and agreement in Spanish spoken sentences

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 346, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 165-168

  Wicha, Nicole Y Y ^a,c   Bates, Elizabeth A ^a   Moreno, Eva M ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory sentence comprehension; Event related potentials; Grammatical gender; Line drawings; N400; P600; Prediction; Semantic congruity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMPREHENSION; DRAWING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 0038306167     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00599-8     Document Type: Article

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