On the brain response to syntactic anomalies: manipulations of word position and word class reveal individual differences.

In two experiments, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 13 scalp locations while subjects read sentences containing a syntactically or a semantically anomalous word. The position (sentence-embedded vs sentence-final) and word class (open vs closed) of the syntactic anomalies wer...

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Published in:Brain & Language Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 494 - 523
Main Authors: Osterhout L, Osterhout, L
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Academic Press Inc. 1997 Oct 1
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