Effects of acoustic distortion and semantic context on event-related potentials to spoken words

Psychophysiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 454-464

  Aydelott, Jennifer ^a,b   Dick, Frederic ^a,b   Mills, Debra L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Hearing; Language; Lexical access; Semantic priming; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33748578610     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2006.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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