How children process over-regularizations: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 601-622

  Clahsen, Harald ^a   Lück, Monika ^b   Hahne, Anja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34547197299     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000907008082     Document Type: Article

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