The influence of semantic category membership on syntactic decisions: A study using event-related brain potentials

Brain Research

Volumn 1082, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-164

  Schiller, Niels O ^a,b,c   Schuhmann, Teresa ^a   Neyndorff, Alessia C ^a   Jansma, Bernadette M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERP; Language comprehension; N200; Psycholinguistic; Semantic gender marking; Syntactic decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33645858253     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.087     Document Type: Article

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