Syllable-frequency effects in visual word recognition: Evidence from ERPs

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 545-548

  Barber, Horacio ^a   Vergara, Marta ^b   Carreiras, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ERP; Language; Lexical access; N400; P200; Syllable; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING;

EID: 1542357582     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200403010-00032     Document Type: Article

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