Rhythm's gonna get you: Regular meter facilitates semantic sentence processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 232-244

  Rothermich, Kathrin ^a   Schmidt Kassow, Maren ^b   Kotz, Sonja A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERPs; Expectancy; Facilitation; Meter; Prediction; Rhythm; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RHYTHM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855864219     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.025     Document Type: Article

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