Semantic and syntactic processing in Chinese sentence comprehension: Evidence from event-related potentials

Brain Research

Volumn 1071, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 186-196

  Ye, Zheng ^a   Luo, Yue Jia ^b   Friederici, Angela D ^c   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

Author keywords

ELAN; N400; Semantic; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 32844459865     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.11.085     Document Type: Article

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