Event-related brain potentials index cue-based retrieval interference during sentence comprehension

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1859-1869

  Martin, Andrea E ^a   Nieuwland, Mante S ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b,c  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agreement attraction; Ellipsis; ERPs; Memory; Retrieval cues; Sentence processing; Sustained anterior negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055188041     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.057     Document Type: Article

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