Verbal and nonverbal semantic processing in children with developmental language impairment

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-85

  Cummings, Alycia ^a,b   Čeponiene, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Environmental sounds; ERP; Event related potentials; Language impairment; LI; N400; SLI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 71549121630     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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