Structure and limited capacity in verbal working memory: A study with event-related potentials

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-36

  Kolk, Herman H J ^a   Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a   Van Herten, Marieke ^a   Oor, Patrick J W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Language capacity; N400; P600; Parsing; Sentence plausibility; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; READING; SEMANTICS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0037380019     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00548-5     Document Type: Article

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