The syntactic and semantic processing of mass and count nouns: An ERP study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Chiarelli, Valentina ^a,e   El Yagoubi, Radouane ^b   Mondini, Sara ^c   Bisiacchi, Patrizia ^c   Semenza, Carlo ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b CNRS UPS 846   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Ospedale Civile   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTIC; BRAIN; EVOKED RESPONSE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053614860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025885     Document Type: Article

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