The role of animacy and thematic relationships in processing active English sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials

Brain and Language

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 223-237

  Kuperberg, Gina R ^a,b   Kreher, Donna A ^a   Sitnikova, Tatiana ^b   Caplan, David N ^b   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; Language; N400; P600; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947189115     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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