An ERP study of agreement features in Spanish

Brain Research

Volumn 1185, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 201-211

  Silva Pereyra, Juan F ^a,b   Carreiras, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agreement features; ERP; Feature Hierarchy hypothesis; Morphosyntax organization; P600

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VERBALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 36448975843     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.029     Document Type: Article

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