Disfluencies along the garden path: Brain electrophysiological evidence of disrupted sentence processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 86-100

  Maxfield, Nathan D ^a   Lyon, Justine M ^a   Silliman, Elaine R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disfluency; Event related potentials; Reanalysis; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350726222     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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