Determining inhibition - Individual differences in the 'lexicon context' trade-off during lexical ambiguity resolution in working memory

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 290-299

  Wagner, Susanne ^a   Gunter, Thomas C ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activation; Ambiguous words; Context; Inhibition; Lexicon; Lexicon context trade off; N300; N400; Semantics; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 10444274174     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.51.4.290     Document Type: Article

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