Semantic activation by Japanese Kanji: Evidence from event-related potentials

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 375-382

  Hayashi, Mitsuo ^a   Kayamoto, Yuriko ^b   Tanaka, Hideki ^a   Yamada, Jun ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; JAPAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; WRITING;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JAPAN; READING; SEMANTICS; WRITING;

EID: 0032036736     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.2.375     Document Type: Article

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