Event-related potential and reaction time evidence for inhibition between alternative meanings of ambiguous words

Brain and Language

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 167-192

  Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a   Kolk, Herman H J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Inhibition processes; Lexical ambiguity resolution; N400; Postlexical integration models; Spreading activation models

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; REACTIVE INHIBITION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0041561010     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00527-8     Document Type: Article

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