ERP and behavioral evidence of individual differences in metaphor comprehension

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 673-689

  Kazmerski, Victoria A ^a   Blasko, Dawn G ^a   Dessalegn, Banchiamlack G ^a  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LITERATURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0041660626     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196107     Document Type: Article

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