The interplay between semantic and referential aspects of anaphoric noun phrase resolution: Evidence from ERPs

Brain and Language

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-131

  Nieuwland, Mante S ^a,b,c   Van Berkum, Jos J A ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaphor resolution; Discourse comprehension; ERPs; LPC; N400; Nref effect; P600; Reference; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 47649098812     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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