Electrophysiological evidence for incremental lexical-semantic integration in auditory compound comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 1854-1864

  Koester, Dirk ^a,b   Holle, Henning ^c   Gunter, Thomas C ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Compound word; Conceptual combination; EEG; ERP; German; Language comprehension; Lexical processing; Semantic composition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349243008     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.027     Document Type: Article

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