The role of pause cues in language learning: The emergence of event-related potentials related to sequence processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 892-905

  Mueller, Jutta L ^a   Bahlmann, Joerg ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 43249123207     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20511     Document Type: Article

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