Neural mechanisms underlying the processing of Chinese and English words in a word generation task: An event-related potential study

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 970-976

  Qiu, Jiang ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Wei, Yonggang ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a   Zhang, Qinglin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese word; English word; ERPs; Event related potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 54049138092     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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