Event-related potential indices of semantic priming following an unrelated intervening item

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-225

  Deacon, Diana ^a   Hewitt, Sean ^a   Tamney, Tara ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed representation; Interposition effect; Intervening word; Lag; N400; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031808983     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00019-0     Document Type: Article

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