Individual Variation In The Late Positive Complex To Semantic Anomalies

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Kos, Miriam ^a,b   van den Brink, Danielle ^a,b,c   Hagoort, Peter ^a,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Inter individual variation; Late positive complex; N400; Semantics; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867082321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00318     Document Type: Article

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