Language experience shapes early electrophysiological responses to visual stimuli: The effects of writing system, stimulus length, and presentation duration

NeuroImage

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2025-2037

  Xue, Gui ^a   Jiang, Ting ^b   Chen, Chuansheng ^c   Dong, Qi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Event related potentials; Language; Language experience; N1; N170; Visual expertise; Visual word recognition; Writing system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WRITING;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38749154267     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.021     Document Type: Article

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