The interaction of discourse context and world knowledge in online sentence comprehension. Evidence from the N400

Brain Research

Volumn 1146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 210-218

  Hald, Lea A ^a   Steenbeek Planting, Esther G ^b   Hagoort, Peter ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discourse; ERP; Language; N400; World knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; READING; SCALP;

EID: 34047260265     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.02.054     Document Type: Article

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