The influence of rhythmic (ir)regularities on speech processing: Evidence from an ERP study on German phrases

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 760-771

  Bohn, Karen ^a   Knaus, Johannes ^a   Wiese, Richard ^a   Domahs, Ulrike ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language processing; Linguistics; Rhythm; Rhythmic irregularities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; RHYTHM; RHYTHMIC IRREGULARITY; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 84874530751     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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