Event-related potentials suggest early interaction between syntax and semantics during on-line sentence comprehension

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 384, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 222-227

  Palolahti, Maria ^a   Leino, Sakari ^a   Jokela, Markus ^a   Kopra, Kreetta ^a   Paavilainen, Petri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

LAN; N400; P600; Semantics; Sentence comprehension; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; STIMULATION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 20644464958     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.04.076     Document Type: Article

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