Strong expectations cancel locality effects: Evidence from Hindi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Husain, Samar ^a   Vasishth, Shravan ^a,b   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EXPECTATION; FACILITATION; HINDI; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; READING; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT; VALIDATION PROCESS; LINGUISTICS; STATISTICS; TIME;

HUMANS; INDIA; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; READING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925228217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.xpone.0100986     Document Type: Article

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