Access to lexical information in language comprehension: Semantics before syntax

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-96

  Müller, Oliver ^a,b   Hagoort, Peter ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAMMAR; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LINGUISTICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33645743808     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892906775249997     Document Type: Article

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