ERP correlates of transposed-letter similarity effects: Are consonants processed differently from vowels?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 419, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 219-224

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a   Vergara, Marta ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consonants and vowels; ERPs; Transposed letters; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING;

EID: 34248597907     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.053     Document Type: Article

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