Early differential processing of verbs and nouns in the human brain as indexed by event-related brain potentials

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1561-1565

  Hasting, Anna S ^a   Winkler, István ^b   Kotz, Sonja A ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Acoustic change; Direction of change; Early syntactic processing; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Word category representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUTOMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 40949089754     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06103.x     Document Type: Article

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