Immediate sensitivity to structural constraints in pronoun resolution

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Chow, Wing Yee ^a,b   Lewis, Shevaun ^a,c   Phillips, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Memory retrieval; Principle B; Pronoun resolution; Self paced reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904560424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00630     Document Type: Article

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