Multiple constraints on semantic integration in a hierarchical structure: ERP evidence from German

Brain Research

Volumn 1410, Issue , 2011, Pages 89-100

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Jiang, Xiaoming ^a   Saalbach, Henrik ^b   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

ERP; Multiple constraints; N400; P600; Semantic process; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic hierarchy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING;

EID: 80052026739     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.06.061     Document Type: Article

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