They played with the trade: MEG investigation of the processing of past tense verbs and their phonological twins

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3713-3720

  Holland, Rachel ^a,e   Brindley, Lisa ^b,e   Shtyrov, Yury ^e   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^c,e   Patterson, Karalyn ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magnetoencephalography; Mismatch negativity; Morphology; Past tense inflection; Phonology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869134342     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.10.019     Document Type: Article

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