Neuroimaging Contributions to the Understanding of Discourse Processes

Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 765-799

  Mason, Robert A ^a   Just, Marcel Adam ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012369374-7/50020-1     Document Type: Chapter

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