Semantic composition engenders an N400: Evidence from Chinese compounds

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 695-699

  Bai, Chen ^a,b   Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^a   Wang, Luming ^a   Hung, Yu Chen ^b   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^b,c   Burkhardt, Petra ^b  

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

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory; Chinese; Compounds; Language processing; Left anterior negativity; N400; P600; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 41749124580     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282fc1eb7     Document Type: Article

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