CNTNAP2 and Language Processing in Healthy Individuals as Measured with ERPs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kos, Miriam ^a   van den Brink, Danielle ^a,b   Snijders, Tineke M ^a,c,d   Rijpkema, Mark ^a   Franke, Barbara ^a,e   Fernandez, Guillen ^a,e   Hagoort, Peter ^a,f  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; THYMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CNTNAP2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868125261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046995     Document Type: Article

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