Are the anterior negativities to grammatical violations indexing working memory?

Psychophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 508-519

  Martín Loeches, Manuel ^a,b   Muñoz, Francisco ^a   Casado, Pilar ^a   Melcon A ^b   Fernandez Frias C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

LAN; P600; Syntax; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; SPELLING; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 32044457744     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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