Eye-movements and ERPs reveal the time course of processing negation and remitting counterfactual worlds

Brain Research

Volumn 1236, Issue , 2008, Pages 113-125

  Ferguson, Heather J ^a,b   Sanford, Anthony J ^a   Leuthold, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse processing; ERP; Eye tracking; Language comprehension; N400; Negation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53049102291     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.099     Document Type: Article

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