Electrical brain responses in language-impaired children reveal grammar-specific deficits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Fonteneau, Elisabeth ^a,b   van der Lely, Heather K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS;

EID: 46349088330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001832     Document Type: Article

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