Brain responses to nouns, verbs and class-ambiguous words in context

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2552-2566

  Federmeier, Kara D ^a   Sega, Jessica B ^c   Lombrozo, Tania ^d   Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; ERPs; Language; Sentence processing; Word class

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0033635722     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.12.2552     Document Type: Article

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