Setting the stage for automatic syntax processing: The mismatch negativity as an indicator of syntactic priming

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 386-400

  Hasting, Anna S ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; OSCILLOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 33847789472     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.3.386     Document Type: Article

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