Oscillatory responses to semantic and syntactic violations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2840-2862

  Kielar, Aneta ^a   Meltzer, Jed A ^a,b   Moreno, Sylvain ^a,b   Alain, Claude ^a,b   Bialystok, Ellen ^a,c  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN OSCILLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED SPECTRAL PERTURBATION; EVENT RELATED SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MONOLINGUALISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC VIOLATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNTACTIC VIOLATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931033428     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00670     Document Type: Article

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