Event-related potential indicators of text integration across sentence boundaries

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-89

  Yang, Chin Lung ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^a   Schmalhofer, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comprehension; ERPs; Event related potentials; Paraphrase; PCA; Predictive inference; Principal components analysis; Text integration

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33845988705     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.1.55     Document Type: Article

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