Gender and number processing in Chinese learners of Spanish - Evidence from Event Related Potentials

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1651-1659

  Dowens, Margaret Gillon ^a,b,d   Guo, Taomei ^c   Guo, Jingjing ^c   Barber, Horacio ^d   Carreiras, Manuel ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; ERPs; Late learners; Morphosyntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956160690     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.034     Document Type: Article

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