Multiple priming of lexically ambiguous and unambiguous targets in the cerebral hemispheres: The coarse coding hypothesis revisited

Brain Research

Volumn 1153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 144-157

  Kandhadai, Padmapriya ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral hemispheres; Coarse coding hypothesis; Lexical ambiguity; Semantic priming; Summation priming; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34249051052     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.046     Document Type: Article

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