Prediction in language comprehension beyond specific words: An ERP study on sentence comprehension in Polish

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 297-314

  Szewczyk, Jakub M ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Gender agreement; N400; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873844874     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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