Verb aspect and the activation of event knowledge

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 182-196

  Ferretti, Todd R ^a   Kutas, Marta ^b,d   McRae, Ken ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; Event knowledge; Event related potentials; Semantic priming; Sentence processing; Verb aspect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33846020895     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.1.182     Document Type: Article

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