Atypical syntactic processing in individuals who stutter: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and behavioral measures

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 960-976

  Cuadrado, Elizabeth M ^a   Weber Fox, Christine M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Language processing; Neurophysiology; Stuttering; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; STUTTERING;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUTTERING;

EID: 0041473624     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/075)     Document Type: Article

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