Brain responses of dyslexic adults to syntactic violations in spoken language: An ERP study
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Chapters 4 and 5 provided experimental data on sensitivity to agreement violations in children with developmental dyslexia. This chapter studies processing of agreement violations and phrase-structure violations in adults with developmental dyslexia. The method of testing is different from that used in the previous chapters. Rather than focussing on the overt linguistic behaviour, the reactions within the brain as a response to syntactic violations will be studied by measuring Event-Related brain Potentials (ERPs). The principle aim of this chapter is to investigate whether the neurophysiological responses to (morpho-)syntactic violations are the same for dyslexic and non-dyslexic subjects.
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