ERP evidence of morphological analysis from orthography: A masked priming study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 866-877

  Lavric, Aureliu ^a   Clapp, Amanda ^a   Rastle, Kathleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 34248387304     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.5.866     Document Type: Article

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