Activation and persistence of implicit causality information in spoken language comprehension

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-16

  Pyykkönen, Pirita ^a,c   Järvikivi, Juhani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implicit causality; Pronoun resolution; Spoken language comprehension; Visual world eye tracking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649105212     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000002     Document Type: Article

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