Processing semantic anomalies in two languages: An electrophysiological exploration in both languages of Spanish-English bilinguals

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 205-220

  Moreno, Eva M ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Concreteness effects; Event related potentials; N400; Second language; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 11844301228     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.08.010     Document Type: Article

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