Understanding counterfactuals in discourse modulates ERP and oscillatory gamma rhythms in the EEG

Brain Research

Volumn 1455, Issue , 2012, Pages 40-55

  Urrutia, Mabel ^a   De Vega, Manuel ^b   Bastiaansen, Marcel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Counterfactual meaning; Discourse comprehension; Gamma rhythm in language; Semantic unification; Updating

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN WAVES; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ROSA;

EID: 84860372027     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.03.032     Document Type: Article

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