Can monitoring in language comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorder be modulated? Evidence from event-related potentials

Biological Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 354-368

  Koolen, Sophieke ^a   Vissers, Constance Th W M ^b,c   Egger, Jos I M ^a,b,c   Verhoeven, Ludo ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VINCENT VAN GOGH INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorder; Cognitive control; Event related potentials; Language; Monitoring; P600 effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MONITORING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; COGNITIVE CONTROL; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; LANGUAGE; MONITORING; P600 EFFECT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882933135     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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