Lexical processing of visually and auditorily presented nouns and verbs: Evidence from reaction time and N400 priming data

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-134

  Gomes, Hilary ^a,b   Ritter, Walter ^a   Tartter, Vivien C ^b   Vaughan Jr , Herbert G ^a   Rosen, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; N400; Noun; Priming; Reaction time; Verb; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031444377     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00023-2     Document Type: Article

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