Age-related and individual differences in the use of prediction during language comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 149-161

  Federmeier, Kara D ^a   Kutas, Marta ^b   Schul, Rina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Category exemplar generation; Event related brain potentials; Frontal positivity; Language comprehension; Language production; N400; Prediction; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049526702     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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