Frequency-based segregation of syntactic and semantic unification during online sentence level language comprehension

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2095-2107

  Bastiaansen, Marcel ^a,b   Hagoort, Peter ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC UNIFICATION; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTIC UNIFICATION; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942884482     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00829     Document Type: Article

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