Effects of grammatical categories on children's visual language processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Brain and Language

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-39

  Weber Fox, Christine ^a   Hart, Laura J ^a   Spruill III, John E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Children; Development; ERPs; Grammatical categories; Grammatical complexity; Hemisphere; Language processing; N400; Reading; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646831299     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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