The interplay of heuristics and parsing routines in sentence comprehension: Evidence from ERPs and reaction times

Biological Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-18

  Vissers, Constance Th W M ^a   Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a   Kolk, Herman H J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Heuristics; Language; N400; P600; Parsing routines; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33947179391     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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