Processing events: Behavioral and neuromagnetic correlates of Aspectual Coercion

Brain and Language

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 132-143

  Brennan, Jonathan ^a   Pylkkänen, Liina ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMF; Aspectual Coercion; MEG; Semantic composition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COERCION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 47849131141     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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