Does working memory capacity affect the ability to predict upcoming words in discourse?

Brain Research

Volumn 1291, Issue , 2009, Pages 92-101

  Otten, Marte ^a,b   Van Berkum, Jos J A ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EEG; ERP; Language; Prediction; Reading span; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 69249226305     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.042     Document Type: Article

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