Evidence for dissociable neural mechanisms underlying inference generation in familiar and less-familiar scenarios

Brain and Language

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 402-413

  Sundermeier, Brian A ^a   Virtue, Sandra M ^a   Marsolek, Chad J ^a   Van Den Broek, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Background knowledge; Familiarity; Hemisphere asymmetries; Inferences; Semantic associations; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 27844486544     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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