Semantics, syntax or neither? A case for resolution in the interpretation of N500 and P600 responses to harmonic incongruities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Featherstone, Cara R ^a   Morrison, Catriona M ^a   Waterman, Mitch G ^a   MacGregor, Lucy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; VOLUNTEER; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892378365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076600     Document Type: Article

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