Sentence context and lexical ambiguity resolution by the two hemispheres

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 827-835

  Faust, Miriam ^a   Chiarello, Christine ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Cerebral asymmetries; Lexical decision; Sentence priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031717382     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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