N400 and p600 or the role of the erp correlates in sentence comprehension: Some applications to the italian language

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 268-303

  Balconi, Michela ^a   Pozzoli, Uberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b Sci Institute of Research and Cure   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory stimuli; Event related potentials; Semantic processing; Syntactic processing; Task induction; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 3142673653     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.131.3.268-303     Document Type: Article

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