Register affects language comprehension: ERP evidence from article omission in newspaper headlines

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 304-319

  Schumacher, Petra B ^a   Avrutin, Sergey ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discourse semantic memory; N400; Reference assignment; Sentence processing; Syntax discourse interface; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79651471517     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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