Pragmatic skills predict online counterfactual comprehension: Evidence from the N400
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Pragmatic skills predict online counterfactual comprehension: Evidence from the N400
Counterfactual thought allows people to consider alternative worlds they know to be false. Communicating these thoughts through language poses a social-communicative challenge because listeners typically expect a speaker to produce true utterances, but counterfactuals per definition convey information that is false. Listeners must therefore incorporate overt linguistic cues (subjunctive mood, s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1530-7026,1531-135X
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-016-0433-4