Neural and behavioral indicators of integration processes across sentence boundaries

Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain: Inference and Comprehension Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 161-188

  Schmalhofer, Franz ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^b  

^a University of Osnabriick   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 36549086702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203936443     Document Type: Chapter

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