Event-related brain potentials elicited by semantic and syntactic anomalies during auditory sentence processing

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 708-725

  Faustmann, Anja ^a   Murdoch, Bruce E ^a   Finnigan, Simon P ^a   Copland, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory ERP responses; N400; P600; Phrase structure violations; Semantic violations; Setence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOACUSIS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDER;

EID: 33644860377     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.16.9.8     Document Type: Article

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