Repetition and semantic priming of nonwords: Implications for theories of N400 and word recognition

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-74

  Deacon, Diana ^a   Dynowska, Anna ^a   Ritter, Walter ^b   Grose Fifer, Jillian ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; N400; Nonwords; Repetition and semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; THEORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 1142310992     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.00120     Document Type: Article

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