Neural Dissociation within Language: Lexical Memory is Part of Declarative Memory Grammatical Rules are Processed by Procedural System

Lexical/Semantic processing:

• Central Negativity (N400)

• Temporal lobe

Grammar processing difficulties:

• Left Anterior Negativity (LAN)

• Left frontal

• Central/posterior positivity (P600)

• Basal ganglia

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Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)

(Friederici et al. 1993, 1996, 1998; Kutas & Hillyard, 1980; Neville et al., 1991; Kotz et al., 2003; Osterhout & Holcomb, 1992)

ERPs are the EEGs following stimuli (e.g., words).

First Language