Is the P600/SPS affected by the richness of semantic content? A linguistic ERP study in Swedish: Cognition and neurosciences

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-9

  Ericsson, Eva ^a   Olofsson, Jonas K ^a   Nordin, Steven ^a,b   Rudolfsson, Thomas ^a   SandstrÖm, Görel ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Event related potentials; Language; P600; Syntactic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SWEDEN;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SWEDEN; VOCABULARY;

EID: 38049089995     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2007.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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