Grammar Processing Outside the Focus of Attention: An MEG Study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1195-1206

  Shtyrov, Yury ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Näätänen, Risto ^c,d   Iloniemi, Risto J ^b,d  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; ERROR; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0345255853     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892903322598148     Document Type: Article

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