Brain responses to filled gaps

Brain and Language

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 301-316

  Hestvik, Arild ^a   Maxfield, Nathan ^b   Schwartz, Richard G ^a   Shafer, Valerie ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

ELAN; Empty categories; Event related potentials; Filled gap effect; Gap filling; LAN; Long distance dependencies; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947160105     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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