Synchronizing timelines: Relations between fixation durations and N400 amplitudes during sentence reading

Brain Research

Volumn 1155, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-162

  Dambacher, Michael ^a   Kliegl, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERP); Eye movements; Fixation durations; N400; Path analysis; Rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP); Sentence reading

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; COVARIANCE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249987153     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.04.027     Document Type: Article

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