Semantic integration processes at different levels of syntactic hierarchy during sentence comprehension: An ERP study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1551-1562

  Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b   Jiang, Xiaoming ^a   Ye, Zheng ^a   Zhang, Yaxu ^a   Lou, Kaiyang ^c   Zhan, Weidong ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Classifier; ERP N400; Late negativity; Late posterior positivity; Semantic integration; Syntactic hierarchy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952546931     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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