Who are you talking about? Tracking discourse-level referential processing with event-related brain potentials

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 228-236

  Nieuwland, Mante S ^a   Otten, Marte ^a   Van Berkum, Jos J A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846887184     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.2.228     Document Type: Article

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