Accessing world knowledge: Evidence from N400 and reaction time priming

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 589-606

  Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a   Kolk, Herman H J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed memory model; ERP; Language; N400; Postlexical integration model; Semantic knowledge; Semantic priming; Spreading activation; World knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 28844488783     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.011     Document Type: Article

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