The N400 effect in children: Relationships with comprehension, vocabulary and decoding

Brain and Language

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 88-99

  Henderson, Lisa M ^a   Baseler, Heidi A ^a   Clarke, Paula J ^b   Watson, Sarah ^a   Snowling, Margaret J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decoding; Event related potentials; Listening comprehension; N400; Semantic processing; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79954417123     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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