Characterizing the morphosyntactic processing deficit and its relationship to phonology in developmental dyslexia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1595-1607

  Cantiani, Chiara ^a,b,c   Lorusso, Maria Luisa ^a   Guasti, Maria Teresa ^b   Sabisch, Beate ^c   Männel, Claudia ^c  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; Event related potentials (ERP); Morphosyntax; Phonology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DELAY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MORPHOSYNTAX; PHONEME; PHONETICS; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879146686     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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