The communicative style of a speaker can affect language comprehension? ERP evidence from the comprehension of irony

Brain Research

Volumn 1311, Issue , 2010, Pages 121-135

  Regel, Stefanie ^a,b   Coulson, Seana ^a,b   Gunter, Thomas C ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Figurative language comprehension; Irony; P200; P600; Pragmatics; Sarcasm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; SPEECH; STIMULUS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72749106763     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.077     Document Type: Article

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