Effects of (in)transitivity on structure building and agreement

Brain Research

Volumn 1163, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 100-110

  Burkhardt, Petra ^a,b   Fanselow, Gisbert ^a   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive and behavioral neuroscience; Conflict resolution; LAN; Minimality; Sentence comprehension; Subject preference; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROSCIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547185172     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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