Electrophysiological responses to argument structure violations in healthy adults and individuals with agrammatic aphasia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3320-3337

  Kielar, Aneta ^a   Meltzer Asscher, Aya ^a   Thompson, Cynthia K ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatic aphasia; Event related potentials; Language related brain potentials; N400; P600; Semantic processing; Verb argument structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAMMATIC APHASIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APHASIA, BROCA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868316042     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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