A comparison of sentence- and discourse-level semantic processing: An ERP study

Brain and Language

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 367-383

  Salmon, Nirit ^a   Pratt, Hillel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Discourse; Event related potentials; LPC; N400; P550; Semantic processing; Sentence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036928430     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00507-2     Document Type: Article

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