Chance in agrammatic sentence comprehension: What does it really mean? Evidence from eye movements of German agrammatic aphasic patients

Aphasiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-244

  Hanne, Sandra ^a   Sekerina, Irina A ^b   Vasishth, Shravan ^a   Burchert, Frank ^a   De Bleser, Ria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatic aphasia; Broca's aphasia; Chance performance; Eye movements; German syntax; Non canonical sentences; Online and offline processing; Sentence comprehension disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 78651479449     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2010.489256     Document Type: Article

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