Decomposition of morphologically complex words in English: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-253

  Münte, Thomas F ^a,d   Say, Tessa ^c   Clahsen, Harald ^c   Schiltz, Kolja ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectionism; Dual route; Event related potentials; Inflectional morphology; N400; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0343936319     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(98)00028-7     Document Type: Article

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