Constraints on sentence comprehension

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 262-268

  Gibson, Edward ^a,c   Pearlmutter, Neal J ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

EID: 0031854802     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01187-5     Document Type: Review

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