Understanding ambiguous words in sentence contexts: Electrophysiological evidence for delayed contextual selection in Broca's aphasia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 737-761

  Swaab, Tamara Y ^a   Brown, Colin ^b   Hagoort, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broca's aphasia; Delayed lexical integration; ERPs; Lexical ambiguity resolution; N400; Processing deficits

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; APHASIA, BROCA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 0031716633     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00174-7     Document Type: Article

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