It's special the way you say it: An ERP investigation on the temporal dynamics of two types of prosody

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1609-1620

  Paulmann, Silke ^a   Jessen, Sarah ^b   Kotz, Sonja A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Emotion; ERPs; Linguistic; Prosodic expectancy positivity; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOLUNTEER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861225747     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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