A deeper reanalysis of a superficial feature: An ERP study on agreement violations

Brain Research

Volumn 1228, Issue , 2008, Pages 161-176

  Molinaro, Nicola ^a,b   Vespignani, Francesco ^a   Job, Remo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ERP; LAN; Language; Lexicon; P600; Phonotactic; Sentence processing; Syntactic agreement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 49549100233     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.06.064     Document Type: Article

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