So that's what you meant! Event-related potentials reveal multiple aspects of context use during construction of message-level meaning

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 356-366

  Wlotko, Edward W ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Frame shifting; Frontal anterior negativity; Language; N400; Sentential context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOKE; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCALP; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861648159     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.054     Document Type: Article

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