Semantic Integration in Sentences and Discourse: Evidence from the N400
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by MIT Press in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Vol. 11 (6) , 657-671
- https://doi.org/10.1162/089892999563724
Abstract
In two ERP experiments we investigated how and when the language comprehension system relates an incoming word to semantic representations of an unfolding local sentence and a wider discourse. In E...Keywords
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