Word, pseudoword, and nonword processing: A multitask comparison using event-related brain potentials

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 758-775

  Ziegler, Johannes C ^a,c   Besson, Mireille ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a   Nazir, Tatjana A ^a   Carr, Thomas H ^b  

^a Center for Research in Cognitive Neurosciences   (France)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LETTER; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031440029     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1997.9.6.758     Document Type: Article

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