An electrophysiological study of mood, modal context, and anaphora

Brain Research

Volumn 1117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-153

  Dwivedi, Veena D ^a,b   Phillips, Natalie A ^b   Laguë Beauvais, Maude ^c   Baum, Shari R ^d  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anaphora; Discourse structure; Event related brain potential; Modal auxiliary; N400; P600

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750013203     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.048     Document Type: Article

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