Sentence comprehension and morphological cues in aphasia: What eye-tracking reveals about integration and prediction

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 83-111

  Hanne, Sandra ^a   Burchert, Frank ^a   De Bleser, Ria ^a   Vasishth, Shravan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Eye tracking; Morphological cues; Online morpho syntactic processing; Prediction; Sentence comprehension deficits

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANOMIC APHASIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84922348143     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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