The effects of multiple script priming on word recognition by the two cerebral hemispheres: Implications for discourse processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 247-257

  Faust, Miriam ^a   Barak, Ofra ^b   Chiarello, Christine ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse processing; Hemispheres; Priming; Scripts; Visual fields

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33750527952     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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