Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Comprehension

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sitnikova, Tatiana ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b   Kuperberg, Gina R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language comprehension; Motion pictures; Semantic comprehension systems; Static pictures; Visual world comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 76849108068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0026     Document Type: Chapter

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