A Rose by Any Other Name: Long-Term Memory Structure and Sentence Processing

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 469-495

  Federmeier, Kara D ^a   Kutas, Marta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Event related potentials; N400; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000025364     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2660     Document Type: Article

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