The neural mechanisms of word order processing revisited: Electrophysiological evidence from Japanese

Brain and Language

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-157

  Wolff, Susann ^a   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^b   Hirotani, Masako ^a,c   Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^a  

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

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Japanese; Linearization; N400; P600; Prominence; Scrambling negativity; Sentence comprehension; Sustained left anterior negativity; Word order

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 53449086583     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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