Electrophysiological evidence of automatic early semantic processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-46

  Hinojosa, José A ^a   Martín Loeches, Manuel ^a   Muñoz, Francisco ^a   Casado, Pilar ^a   Pozo, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic; Controlled; Event related potentials; Recognition potential; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0347416793     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00158-5     Document Type: Article

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