Who's in control? Proficiency and L1 influence on L2 processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1593-1610

  Elston Güttler, Kerrie E ^a   Paulmann, Silke ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 27144474921     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892905774597245     Document Type: Article

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