Event related potentials reveal differences between morphological (prefixes) and phonological (syllables) processing of words

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 408, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-15

  Domínguez, Alberto ^a,b   Alija, Maira ^c   Cuetos, Fernando ^c   de Vega, Mauel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Universitario de Lingüística Andrés Bello   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Early positivity; Inhibitory hypothesis; Morphemes; Morphological priming; N400; Phonological priming; Prefixes; Syllables

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHIBITION KINETICS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; TARGET VARIABLE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33749041670     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.06.048     Document Type: Article

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