Syllable frequency effects in French visual word recognition: An ERP study

Brain Research

Volumn 1115, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-134

  Goslin, Jeremy ^a,b   Grainger, Jonathan ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; French; Frequency; Lexical access; Syllable

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748927809     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.093     Document Type: Article

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