Is animacy special?: ERP correlates of semantic violations and animacy violations in sentence processing

Brain Research

Volumn 1368, Issue , 2011, Pages 208-221

  Szewczyk, Jakub M ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animacy; Event related potential; P600; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651086787     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.10.070     Document Type: Article

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