On the Proper Treatment of the N400 and P600 in Language Comprehension
Harm Brouwer1, Matthew W Crocker1
1Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland UniversitySaarbrücken, Germany.
Frontiers in Psychology
|August 22, 2017
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