Anticipating words and their gender: An event-related brain potential study of semantic integration, gender expectancy, and gender agreement in Spanish sentence reading

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1272-1288

  Wicha, Nicole Y Y ^a,b   Moreno, Eva M ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 4644331917     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929041920487     Document Type: Article

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