Retrieval interference in syntactic processing: The case of reflexive binding in English

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Patil, Umesh ^a,b   Vasishth, Shravan ^a   Lewis, Richard L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphor resolution; Computational modeling; Eye tracking; Interference; Memory retrieval; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974718051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00329     Document Type: Article

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