ERP evidence for the online processing of rhythmic pattern during Chinese sentence reading

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2836-2849

  Luo, Yingyi ^a   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b,c,d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c Peking University   (China)

^d CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ERP; Late positivity; N400; P800; Posterior positivity; Prosody; Rhythmic pattern; Sentence reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849112180     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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