The influence of semantic and phonological factors on syntactic decisions: An event-related brain potential study

Psychophysiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 869-877

  Schiller, Niels O ^a,b   Münte, Thomas F ^c   Horemans, Iemke ^a   Jansma, Bernadette M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERPs; Grammatical gender; Psycholinguistics; Semantic and phonological gender marking; Speech comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0242473169     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.00105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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