Semantic sentence processing reflected in the event-related potentials of one- and two-year-old children

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1801-1804

  Friedrich, Manuela ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Development; Event related potentials; N400; Semantics; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 27544476430     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000185013.98821.62     Document Type: Article

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