Electrophysiological correlates of complement coercion

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2685-2701

  Kuperberg, Gina R ^a,b   Choi, Arim ^a   Cohn, Neil ^a   Paczynski, Martin ^a   Jackendoff, Ray ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCALP; SEMANTICS; WRITING; COERCION; COFFEE; JOURNALISM;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

SEMANTICS;

ANIMACY; ARGUMENT STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC ARGUMENTS; SEMANTIC PROPERTIES;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 77956058439     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21333     Document Type: Article

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