ERP manifestations of processing printed words at different psycholinguistic levels: Time course and scalp distribution

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-260

  Bentin, S ^a   Mouchetant Rostaing, Y ^b   Giard, M H ^b   Echallier, J F ^b   Pernier, J ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCALP; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRINTING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SCALP; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033013150     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563373     Document Type: Article

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