Sentence comprehension disorders in aphasia: The concept of chance performance revisited

Aphasiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 112-125

  Burchert, Frank ^a   Hanne, Sandra ^a   Vasishth, Shravan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chance performance; Eye tracking; Online sentence processing; Sentence comprehension in aphasia; Visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; PSYCHOANALYSIS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84872407758     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2012.730603     Document Type: Article

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