When Chinese semantics meets failed syntax

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 745-749

  Yu, Jing ^a   Zhang, Yaxu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language; Left anterior negativity; N400; Semantic processing; Syntactic category; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 42349111174     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282fda21d     Document Type: Article

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