The role of animacy in the real time comprehension of Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from auditory event-related brain potentials

Brain and Language

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 112-133

  Philipp, Markus ^a   Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^b   Bisang, Walter ^c   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adversative passive; Animacy; Event related brain potentials; Language comprehension; Mandarin Chinese; N400; Thematic interpretation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHINA; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 42249087788     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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