A critical review of ERP and fMRI evidence on L2 syntactic processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 109, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 68-74

  Kotz, Sonja A ^a  

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

Author keywords

ELAN LAN; ERPs; fMRI; IFG; L2 syntactic processing; P600; STG

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTILINGUALISM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 65149093643     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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