When peanuts fall in love: N400 evidence for the power of discourse

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1098-1111

  Nieuwland, Mante S ^a   Van Berkum, Jos J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; SCALP; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LOVE; MALE;

EID: 33746027335     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.7.1098     Document Type: Article

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