Word and picture processing in children: An event-related potential study

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 373-406

  Coch, Donna ^a   Maron, Leeza ^a   Wolf, Maryanne ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0036402162     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15326942dn2201_3     Document Type: Article

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