Involvement of cognitive control in sentence comprehension: Evidence from ERPs

Brain Research

Volumn 1203, Issue , 2008, Pages 103-115

  Ye, Zheng ^a   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anterior negativity; Cognitive control; Heuristic; P600; Sentence comprehension; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40949115396     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.090     Document Type: Article

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