Proficiency differences in syntactic processing of monolingual native speakers indexed by event-related potentials

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2728-2744

  Pakulak, Eric ^a   Neville, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIETY; SPEECH; STANDARDIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENGLISH (LANGUAGE); FEMALE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; GROUP ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY; NATIVE LANGUAGE; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; WIDE SPECTRUM; WORKING MEMORY;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 78649493192     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21393     Document Type: Review

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