The contents of predictions in sentence comprehension: Activation of the shape of objects before they are referred to

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 437-447

  Rommers, Joost ^a,b   Meyer, Antje S ^a,c   Praamstra, Peter ^d,e   Huettig, Falk ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Eye tracking; N400; Predictive sentence processing; Visual representations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871890269     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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