Syntactic priming in comprehension: Evidence from event-related potentials

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-143

  Ledoux, Kerry ^a,b   Traxler, Matthew J ^a   Swaab, Tamara Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947631209     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01863.x     Document Type: Article

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