Human neuronal encoding of English syntactic violations as revealed by both L1 and L2 speakers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 368, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 235-240

  Kubota, Mikio ^a,b   Ferrari, Paul ^b   Roberts, Timothy P L ^b  

^a SEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; MEG; SF M150; Syntactic violation; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY; MULTILINGUALISM; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 4444362072     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.07.027     Document Type: Article

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