An ERP study of the neural correlates of processing Chinese content words and function words

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-275

  Guo, Taomei ^a   Qi, Zhenhai ^b   Peng, Danling ^a   Yan, Yan ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese language; Content words; ERP; Function words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 40949154766     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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