Brain responses to case-marking violations in German preschool children

NeuroReport

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 850-854

  Schipke, Christine S ^a,b   Friederici, Angela D ^a,b   Oberecker, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

argument structure; case marking; event related potentials; language development; N400; P600; syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE MARKING VIOLATION; CHILD; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 80053641988     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834c1578     Document Type: Article

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