Hemispheric asymmetries in font-specific and abstractive priming of written personal names: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Brain Research

Volumn 1117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 195-205

  Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a,b   Lisa Ramsay, Amy ^b   Kaufmann, Jürgen M ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Event related brain potential; Font; Hemisphere; N200; N250r; N400; Personal name; Priming; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33750010404     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.070     Document Type: Article

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