Sentence integration processes: An ERP study of Chinese sentence comprehension with relative clauses

Brain and Language

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 85-100

  Yang, Chin Lung ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^b   Liu, Ying ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese reading; Event related potentials (ERPs); Information processing; LORETA; Relative clause; Sentence comprehension; Sentence integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINESE; CHINESE LANGUAGE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; READING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75549090865     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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