Monitoring in language perception: Evidence from ERPs in a picture-sentence matching task

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 967-982

  Vissers, Constance Th W M ^a   Kolk, Herman H J ^a   van de Meerendonk, Nan ^a   Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potential; Functional significance of the P600; Language; Picture sentence mismatches; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 39149129940     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.027     Document Type: Article

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