Event-related brain potential evidence for early effects of neighborhood density in word recognition

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1957-1961

  Taler, Vanessa ^a   Phillips, Natalie A ^a,b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Lexical access; Neighborhood density

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36249028049     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f202f5     Document Type: Article

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