The P600 in Implicit Artificial Grammar Learning

Susana Silva1,2, Vasiliki Folia3,4, Peter Hagoort3,4

  • 1Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Centre for Biomedical Research (CBMR), University of Algarve.

Cognitive Science
|February 26, 2016
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