Electrophysiological and behavioral measures of the influence of literal and figurative contextual constraints on proverb comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-49

  Ferretti, Todd R ^a   Schwint, Christopher A ^a   Katz, Albert N ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERP; Late positivity; N400; Proverb comprehension; Self paced reading; Slow cortical waves

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; SLOW BRAIN WAVE;

APHORISMS AND PROVERBS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947657983     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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