Past tense in the brain's time: Neurophysiological evidence for dual-route processing of past-tense verbs

NeuroImage

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 187-195

  Bakker, Iske ^a,b   MacGregor, Lucy J ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a,c   Shtyrov, Yury ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

MEG; Mismatch negativity; Morphological processing; Past tense

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873517168     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.065     Document Type: Article

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