An erp research on chinese Japanese learners' processing of Japanese kanji and sentences

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1491-1500

  Mi, Liping ^a   Luo, Xin ^b   Ren, Fuji ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potential; N400; P600; Semantic processing; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; LANGUAGE LEARNING; N400; NEURAL MECHANISMS; P600; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCESSING LOAD; RECOGNITION PROCESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERES; SEMANTIC PROCESSING; SYNTACTIC INTEGRATION;

SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 77950159507     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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