The time course of the use of implicit causality information in the processing of pronouns: A visual world paradigm study

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 381-403

  Cozijn, Reinier ^a   Commandeur, Edwin ^a,e   Vonk, Wietske ^b,c   Noordman, Leo G M ^a,d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e ATLIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Implicit causality; Language comprehension; Pronoun resolution; Visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953171829     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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