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Language, Cognition and Neuroscience Volume 30, 2015 - Issue 6
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When a causal assumption is not satisfied by reality: differential brain responses to concessive and causal relations during sentence comprehension

Xiaodong XuSchool of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing210097, ChinaView further author information
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Xiaoming JiangDepartment of Psychology, Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing100871, ChinaView further author information
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Xiaolin ZhouDepartment of Psychology, Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing100871, China;Key Laboratory of Machine Perception and Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics (Ministry of Education), Peking University, Beijing100871, China;Collaborative Innovation Center for Language Competence, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou221009, China;PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing100871, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 704-715 | Received 23 Jul 2014, Accepted 20 Dec 2014, Published online: 04 Feb 2015

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Xiuping Zhang, Xiaohong Yang & Yufang Yang. (2019) Updating emotional information in daily language comprehension: The influence of topic shifts. Journal of Neurolinguistics 52, pages 100851.
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Xiaodong Xu, Meizhu Pan, Haoyun Dai, Hui Zhang & Yiyi Lu. (2018) How referential uncertainty is modulated by conjunctions: ERP evidence from advanced Chinese–English L2 learners and English L1 speakers. Second Language Research 35:2, pages 195-224.
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Lijuan Chen, Xiaodong Xu, Qingrong Chen & Phaedra Royle. (2018) Can pragmatic inference benefit from topic prominence? ERP evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Neurolinguistics 46, pages 11-22.
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Merel C.J. Scholman, Hannah Rohde & Vera Demberg. (2017) “On the one hand” as a cue to anticipate upcoming discourse structure. Journal of Memory and Language 97, pages 47-60.
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Xiaodong Xu & Xiaolin Zhou. (2016) “Who” should be focused? The influence of focus status on pronoun resolution. Psychophysiology 53:11, pages 1679-1689.
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Xiaoming Jiang & Xiaolin Zhou. (2015) Who is respectful? Effects of social context and individual empathic ability on ambiguity resolution during utterance comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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