Mapping sentence form onto meaning: The syntax-semantic interface

Brain Research

Volumn 1146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-58

  Friederici, Angela D ^a   Weissenborn, Jürgen ^a,b  

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

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

LAN; N400; Syntax; Verb argument structure; Word category

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; THINKING;

EID: 34047249781     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.038     Document Type: Review

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