Electrophysiological signatures of visual lexical processing: Open- and closed-class words

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 261-281

  Brown, Colin M ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^a   Ter Keurs, Mariken ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SCALP; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033007654     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563382     Document Type: Article

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