Electrophysiological and Behavioral Evidence of Syntactic Priming in Sentence Comprehension

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-45

  Tooley, Kristen M ^a   Traxler, Matthew J ^a   Swaab, Tamara Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; eye tracking; parsing; semantics; syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 58449114091     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013984     Document Type: Article

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