Hemispheric inference priming during comprehension of conversations and narratives

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2577-2583

  Powers, Chivon ^a   Bencic, Rachel ^a   Horton, William S ^a   Beeman, Mark ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain hemispheres; Conversation; Inferences; Language comprehension; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERENCE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY; NARRATIVE; RELIABILITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865542058     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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