Neural plasticity in the dynamics of human visual word recognition

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 61-64

  King, Jonathan W ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language; Lexical access; Neural plasticity; Reading; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LIFESPAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 0032513130     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00140-2     Document Type: Article

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