Electrophysiological correlates of rapid auditory and linguistic processing in adolescents with specific language impairment

Brain and Language

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 162-181

  Weber Fox, Christine ^a   Leonard, Laurence B ^a   Wray, Amanda Hampton ^a   Bruce Tomblin, J ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Auditory processing; ERPs; Lexical; Morpho syntax; Semantic; Semantic anomalies; Specific language impairment; Verb agreement violations; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049527165     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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