Facilitatory and inhibitory effects of grammatical agreement: Evidence from readers' eye fixation patterns

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-202

  Vainio, Seppo ^a   Hyönä, Jukka ^a   Pajunen, Anneli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Grammatical agreement; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0038301232     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00029-4     Document Type: Article

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