Theoretical analysis of interhemispheric transfer costs in visual word recognition

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 165-182

  Hunter, Zoë R ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; EYE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SERIOL MODEL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 38049098257     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960701579813     Document Type: Article

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