A beautiful day in the neighborhood: An event-related potential study of lexical relationships and prediction in context

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-338

  Laszlo, Sarah ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; N400; Orthographic neighborhood; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 69449094296     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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