The influence of semantic and syntactic context constraints on lexical selection and integration in spoken-word comprehension as revealed by ERPS

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1068-1084

  Van Den Brink, Daniëlle ^a,b   Hagoort, Peter ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3242884408     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929041502670     Document Type: Article

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