Brain potentials for derivational morphology: An ERP study of deadjectival nominalizations in Spanish

Brain and Language

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 332-344

  Havas, Viktória ^a   Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni ^a,b   Clahsen, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Derivational morphology; Event related brain potentials; N400; P600; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858006789     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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