Semantic organization of basic-level words in 20-month-olds: An ERP study

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 431-454

  Torkildsen, Janne von Koss ^a   Sannerud, Tuva ^a   Syversen, Gro ^a   Thormodsen, Rune ^a   Simonsen, Hanne Gram ^a   Moen, Inger ^a   Smith, Lars ^a   Lindgren, Magnus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Categorization; Development; ERP; Lexical processing; N400; Semantics

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33748632651     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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