N400 lexicality effect in highly blurred Chinese words: Evidence for automatic processing

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-178

  Wang, Quanhong ^a   Yuan, Jiajin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Chinese words; Event related potentials; N400; Stimulus degradation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38049110733     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f3e3f2     Document Type: Article

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