Morphological processing in a second language: Behavioral and event-related brain potential evidence for storage and decomposition

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-134

  Hahne, Anja ^a   Mueller, Jutta L ^a   Clahsen, Harald ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 33644895160     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892906775250067     Document Type: Article

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