The importance of causal connections in the comprehension of spontaneous spoken discourse

Psicothema

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 801-806

  Cevasco, Jazmin ^a   Van Broek, Paul Den ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 55449093181     PISSN: 02149915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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