ERPs reveal comparable syntactic sentence processing in native and non-native readers of English

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 514-527

  Kotz, Sonja A ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b   Osterhout, Lee ^c  

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

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; L2 syntactic processing; P600; Syntactic ambiguity; Syntactic anomaly

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 47249104726     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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