A comparison of semantic and syntactic event related potentials generated by children and adults

Brain and Language

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 236-246

  Atchley, Ruth Ann ^a   Rice, Mabel L ^b   Betz, Stacy K ^b   Kwasny, Kristin M ^a   Sereno, Joan A ^a   Jongman, Allard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Child language; Event related potentials; P600; Semantics; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILDHOOD; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SCALP; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33750527071     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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