Event-related potentials elicited during parsing of ambiguous relative clauses in Spanish

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-105

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a   Salillas, Elena ^a   Barber, Horacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attachment; Cognition; ERP; Neural basis of behaviour; P600; Parsing; Relative clauses; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING;

EID: 2342525950     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.01.009     Document Type: Article

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