Grammar or serial order?: Discrete combinatorial brain mechanisms reflected by the syntactic mismatch negativity

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 971-980

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Assadollahi, Ramin ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34249813696     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.6.971     Document Type: Article

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