Words, hemispheres, and dissociable subsystems: The effects of exposure duration, case alternation, priming, and continuity of form on word recognition in the left and right visual fields

Brain and Language

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 292-303

  Ellis, Andrew W ^a   Ansorge, Lydia ^b   Lavidor, Michal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case alternation; Dissociable neural subsystems theory; Exposure duration; Hemispheres; Mixed case; Priming; Reading; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TIME; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35548958275     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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