Event-related responses to pronoun and proper name anaphors in parallel and nonparallel discourse structures

Brain and Language

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 273-286

  Streb, Judith ^a   Rösler, Frank ^a   Hennighausen, Erwin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anaphor; Discourse comprehension; Event related potentials; LAN; N400

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0344241098     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1999.2177     Document Type: Article

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