An electrophysiological investigation of semantic priming with pictures of real objects

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-65

  McPherson, W Brian ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; N300; N400; Object recognition; Picture processing; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032921263     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299971196     Document Type: Article

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