Neural dynamics of inflectional and derivational morphology processing in the human brain

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2758-2771

  Leminen, Alina ^a   Leminen, Miika ^a,b   Kujala, Teija ^a   Shtyrov, Yury ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

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

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Derivation; Event related potentials (ERPs); Inflection; Lexical frequency; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Morphology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY PROCESSING; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PHONEME; VERBAL MEMORY; VOWEL;

DERIVATION; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS (ERPS); INFLECTION; LEXICAL FREQUENCY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY (MMN); MORPHOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889659069     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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