To watch, to see, and to differ: An event-related potential study of concreteness effects as a function of word class and lexical ambiguity

Brain and Language

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-158

  Lee, Chia lin ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Concreteness effects; ERPs; Language; Noun verb homonymy; Word class; Word class ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38649116295     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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