Frequency and predictability effects on event-related potentials during reading

Brain Research

Volumn 1084, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-103

  Dambacher, Michael ^a   Kliegl, Reinhold ^a   Hofmann, Markus ^b   Jacobs, Arthur M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Lexical access; Reading; Repeated measures multiple regression analysis; Word frequency; Word predictability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33646436186     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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