Predictive mechanisms in idiom comprehension

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1682-1700

  Vespignani, Francesco ^a   Canal, Paolo ^b   Molinaro, Nicola ^c   Fonda, Sergio ^b   Cacciari, Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955488232     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21293     Document Type: Article

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