Event-related brain potentials to violations of arithmetic syntax represented by place value structure

Biological Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 354-367

  Szucs, Dénes ^a   Soltész, Fruzsina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arithmetic N400; Arithmetic syntax; ERP; Incongruence detection; Mental addition; P3a; P3b; P600; Place value violation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953028700     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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