Neural dynamics of inflectional and derivational processing in spoken word comprehension: Laterality and automaticity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Whiting, Caroline M ^a,b   Marslen Wilson, William D ^a,b   Shtyrov, Yury ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Derivation; EEG; Inflection; Language comprehension; MEG; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888093497     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00759     Document Type: Article

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