Effects of stimulus font and size on masked repetition priming: An event-related potentials (ERP) investigation

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 183-200

  Chauncey, Krysta ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 38049177492     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960701579839     Document Type: Article

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