The acceleration of spoken-word processing in children's native-language acquisition: An ERP cohort study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 790-799

  Ojima, Shiro ^a,b,c   Matsuba Kurita, Hiroko ^b   Nakamura, Naoko ^a   Hagiwara, Hiroko ^a,b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Incremental processing; N200; N400; Onset latency; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ONSET LATENCY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN WAVES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79954421804     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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