Context-sensitive neural responses to conflict resolution: Electrophysiological evidence from subject-object ambiguities in language comprehension

Brain Research

Volumn 1098, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 139-152

  Schlesewsky, Matthias ^a   Bornkessel, Ina ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Good enough representations; Morphological case; N400; P600; Reanalysis; Subject object ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33747756809     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.080     Document Type: Article

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