Cerebral mechanisms for suppression of inappropriate information during sentence comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 234-259

  Faust, Mark E ^a   Gernsbacher, Morton Ann ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029964436     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1996.0046     Document Type: Article

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