Pronominal reference in sentences about persons or things: An electrophysiological approach

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-239

  Hammer, Anke ^a   Jansma, Bernadette M ^a   Lamers, Monique ^b   Münte, Thomas F ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MASCULINITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 13244283185     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929053124947     Document Type: Article

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