What's 'right' in language comprehension: Event-related potentials reveal right hemisphere language capabilities

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Federmeier, Kara D ^a   Wlotko, Edward W ^a   Meyer, Aaron M ^a  

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

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EID: 46749109283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00042.x     Document Type: Article

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