Knowledge inhibition and N400: A study with words that look like common words

Brain and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 202-220

  Debruille, J Bruno ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERP; Inhibition; Knowledge representation; N400; Orthographic neighborhood; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0031749214     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1997.1904     Document Type: Article

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