Preschool children's interpretation of object-initial sentences: Neural correlates of their behavioral performance

Developmental Science

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 762-774

  Schipke, Christine S ^a,b   Knoll, Lisa J ^a   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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BERLIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 84868109841     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01167.x     Document Type: Article

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