Event-related potentials associated with second language learning in children

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1507-1512

  Shestakova, Anna ^a   Huotilainen, Minna ^a   Čeponiene, Rita ^b   Cheour, Marie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Event related potentials; Late discriminative negativity; Learning; Mismatch negativity; P3a; Speech

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STIMULUS;

EID: 0041370065     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00134-2     Document Type: Article

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