An ERP study of regular and irregular English past tense inflection

NeuroImage

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 435-445

  Newman, Aaron J ^a   Ullman, Michael T ^b   Pancheva, Roumyana ^c   Waligura, Diane L ^d   Neville, Helen J ^d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHONETICS;

EID: 33751200317     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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