What makes a discourse constraining? Comparing the effects of discourse message and scenario fit on the discourse-dependent N400 effect

Brain Research

Volumn 1153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 166-177

  Otten, Marte ^a   Van Berkum, Jos J A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discourse processing; ERP; Language comprehension; N400

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TECHNIQUE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; READING;

EID: 34249001638     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.058     Document Type: Article

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