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TABLE OF CONTENTS IX
7 Electroencephalography and Event-Related Potentials 87
8 Experiments I – IV: Introduction 93
9 Experiment I: Neural correlates of processing musical syntax in
2½-year old children 95
9.1 Introduction and Hypotheses 95
9.2 Methods 95
Participants 95
Stimuli and paradigm 96
EEG recording and processing 98
Statistical evaluation 99
9.3 Results 99
9.4 Discussion 102
9.5 Conclusion 104
10 Experiment II: Neural correlates of processing musical syntax in 5year
old children with either Specific Language Impairment or
typical language development 107
10.1 Introduction and Hypotheses 107
10.2 Method 108
Participants 108
Stimuli and paradigm 109
EEG recording and processing 111
Statistical evaluation 111
10.3 Results 112
10.4 Discussion 118
10.5 Conclusion 122
11 Experiment III: Neural correlates of musical and linguistic syntax
processing in 9-year old children with or without musical training123