The experiential view oflanguage comprehension: How is negation represented?

Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain: Inference and Comprehension Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 255-288

  Kaup, Barbara ^a   Ludtke, Jana ^a   Zwaan, Rolf A ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203936443     Document Type: Chapter

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