Meaningful physical changes mediate lexical-semantic integration: Top-down and form-based bottom-up information sources interact in the N400

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3573-3582

  Lotze, Netaya ^a   Tune, Sarah ^b   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^c   Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bidirectional coding account; Computer mediated communication; Language comprehension; Late positivity; Lexicon; N400; Physical deviance; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80755139733     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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