Developmental changes in neural activity to familiar words and gestures

Brain and Language

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 246-259

  Sheehan, Elizabeth A ^a   Namy, Laura L ^a   Mills, Debra L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Gestures; N400; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249040320     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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