Inadequate and infrequent are not alike: ERPs to deviant prosodic patterns in spoken sentence comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-169

  Mietz, Anja ^a   Toepel, Ulrike ^b,c   Ischebeck, Anja ^d   Alter, Kai ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early negativity; ERP; N400; P600; Speech processing; Syntax prosody mismatch; Vocative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 38649122699     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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