The relative timing of syntactic and semantic processes in sentence comprehension

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 165-169

  Friederici, A D ^a   Gunter, T C ^a   Hahne, A ^a   Mauth, K ^b  

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

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERP; LAN; Language; N400; P600; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3042741268     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200401190-00032     Document Type: Article

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