The influence of semantic fit on on-line sentence processing

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1304-1312

  Schmauder, A René ^a   Egan, Marie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0031767981     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201202     Document Type: Article

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