Semantic activation, letter search and N400: A reply to Mari-Beffa, Valdes, Cullen, Catena and Houghton (2005)

Brain Research

Volumn 1073-1074, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 440-443

  Dombrowski, Jan Henryk ^a   Heil, Martin ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Letter search; N400; Semantic activation; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33644944872     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.12.082     Document Type: Article

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