Prosody-syntax interactions in aging: Event-related potentials reveal dissociations between on-line and off-line measures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 472, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-138

  Steinhauer, Karsten ^a   Abada, Shani H ^a   Pauker, Efrat ^a   Itzhak, Inbal ^a   Baum, Shari R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; ERP; Prosody; Syntactic ambiguity

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77349093244     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.01.072     Document Type: Article

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