Converging evidence for the processing costs associated with ambiguous quantifier comprehension

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  McMillan, Corey T ^a   Coleman, Danielle ^a   Clark, Robin ^b   Liang, Tsao Wei ^c   Gross, Rachel G ^a   Grossman, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fmri; Frontotemporal dementia; Language; Quantifiers; Volumetric MRI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878825938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00153     Document Type: Article

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