Event-related brain potential markers of high-language proficiency in adults

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-244

  Weber Fox, Christine ^a   Davis, Laura J ^a   Cuadrado, Elizabeth ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed class words; ERPs; Language proficiency; Lexical access; N400

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECORDING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038640175     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00587-4     Document Type: Article

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