Influence of syllabic lengthening on semantic processing in spoken French: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2659-2668

  Magne, Cyrille ^a,b,d   Astésano, Corine ^a,b   Aramaki, Mitsuko ^c   Ystad, Sølvi ^c   Kronland Martinet, Richard ^c   Besson, Mireille ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE ET D ACOUSTIQUE   (France)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Late positivity; Meter; N400; Prosody; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 35148814468     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl174     Document Type: Article

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