Making sense of sentences in schizophrenia: Electrophysiological evidence for abnormal interactions between semantic and syntactic processing

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 251-265

  Kuperberg, Gina R ^a,b   Sitnikova, Tatiana ^b   Goff, Donald ^b   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; N400 event related potential; Schizophrenia; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; COGNITION; EVOKED RESPONSE; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33745773541     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.115.2.251     Document Type: Article

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