An event-related potential study on changes of violation and error responses during morphosyntactic learning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 433-446

  Davidson, Douglas J ^a,b   Indefrey, Peter ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MORPHOSYNTACTIC LEARNING; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149137622     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21031     Document Type: Article

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