Hemispheric asymmetries in the resolution of lexical ambiguity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 272-282

  Coney, Jeffrey ^a   Evans, Kimberly David ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hemisphere; Homographs; Meaning frequency; Sentential context

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 0033991359     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00076-7     Document Type: Article

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