Automatic word form processing in masked priming: An ERP study

Psychophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 343-355

  Grossi, Giordana ^a,b   Coch, Donna ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Masked priming; N200; Orthography; Refractory effects; Word form

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 20544457739     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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