To mind the mind: An event-related potential study of word class and semantic ambiguity

Brain Research

Volumn 1081, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 191-202

  Lee, Chia lin ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; Language; Noun verb homonymy; Word class; Word class ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33645733860     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.058     Document Type: Article

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