When heuristics clash with parsing routines: ERP evidence for conflict monitoring in sentence perception

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1181-1197

  Van Herten, Marieke ^a,b   Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a   Kolk, Herman H J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEMORY; MONITORING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33745993915     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.7.1181     Document Type: Article

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