Inferential bridging relations reveal distinct neural mechanisms: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Brain and Language

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-168

  Burkhardt, Petra ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaphora resolution; Anaphoric complexity; Event related potentials; Familiarity; Inferences; Mental model; N400; P600; Reference; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE;

EID: 33745940667     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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