How Distance Affects Semantic Integration in Discourse: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials.

Event-related potentials were used to investigate whether semantic integration in discourse is influenced by the number of intervening sentences between the endpoints of integration. Readers read discourses in which the last sentence contained a critical word that was either congruent or incongruent...

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Main Authors: Xiaohong Yang, Shuang Chen, Xuhai Chen, Yufang Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4646638?pdf=render