On understanding idiomatic language: The salience hypothesis assessed by ERPs

Brain Research

Volumn 1068, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 151-160

  Laurent, Jean Paul ^a   Denhières, Guy ^b   Passerieux, Christine ^c   Iakimova, Galina ^c   Hardy Baylé, Marie Christine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE VERSAILLES   (France)

Author keywords

Figurative utterance; Idiom; N400; P600; Pragmatic; Psychophysiology; Salience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 31344436411     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.10.076     Document Type: Article

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