Hierarchical and linear sequence processing: An electrophysiological exploration of two different grammar types

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1829-1842

  Bahlmann, Jörg ^a   Gunter, Thomas C ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33750535157     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.11.1829     Document Type: Article

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