When do you grasp the idea? MEG evidence for instantaneous idiom understanding

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3502-3513

  Boulenger, Véronique ^a,b   Shtyrov, Yury ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a,c  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action words; Idioms; MEG; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855163193     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.011     Document Type: Article

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