On-line syntactic processing under concurrent memory load

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-95

  Waters, Gloria ^a   Caplan, David ^b   Yampolsky, Sasha ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0042278543     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196471     Document Type: Article

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