Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension: Literature review and Bayesian meta-analysis

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 94, Issue , 2017, Pages 316-339

  Jäger, Lena A ^a   Engelmann, Felix ^b   Vasishth, Shravan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Agreement; Bayesian meta analysis; Cue based retrieval; Interference; Reflexives; Syntactic dependency processing

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; META ANALYSIS; MODEL; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

EID: 85014016307     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.01.004     Document Type: Article

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