Seeing words in context: The interaction of lexical and sentence level information during reading

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-73

  Hoeks, John C J ^a   Stowe, Laurie A ^a   Doedens, Gina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERPs; Message level constraint; N400; P600; Semantics; Sentence comprehension; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 1242337477     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.10.022     Document Type: Article

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