An ERP study of syntactic processing in English and nonsense sentences

Brain Research

Volumn 1130, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 167-180

  Yamada, Yoshiko ^a   Neville, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; Language; Semantic information; Sentence processing; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846027544     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.10.052     Document Type: Article

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