Processing psych verbs: Behavioural and MEG measures of two different types of semantic complexity

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 777-807

  Brennan, Jonathan ^a   Pylkkänen, Liina ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 77953678358     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690961003616840     Document Type: Article

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