Insensitivity of the human sentence-processing system to hierarchical structure

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 829-834

  Frank, Stefan L ^a,b   Bod, Rens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cognitive processes; computer simulation; language; neural networks; psycholinguistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING;

EID: 79958085119     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611409589     Document Type: Article

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