The neural underpinnings of semantic ambiguity and anaphora

Brain Research

Volumn 1311, Issue , 2010, Pages 93-109

  Dwivedi, Veena D ^a   Phillips, Natalie A ^a   Einagel, Stephanie ^a   Baum, Shari R ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anaphora; ERPs; N400; P600; Quantifier ambiguity; Slow negative shift

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72649095347     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.09.102     Document Type: Article

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