Grammatical gender and number agreement in Spanish: An ERP comparison

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 137-153

  Barber, Horacio ^a,c   Carreiras, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOPOGRAPHY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12544255811     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929052880101     Document Type: Article

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