Processing the universal quantifier during sentence comprehension: ERP evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 1799-1815

  Jiang, Xiaoming ^a   Tan, Yingying ^a   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

ERP; Sentence comprehension; Sustained negativity; Sustained positivity; Universal quantifier

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WAVEFORM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349119565     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.020     Document Type: Article

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