Determining the role of phonology in silent reading using event-related brain potentials

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-105

  Newman, Randy Lynn ^a   Connolly, John F ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Language; N270; N400; Neural basis of behaviour; Orthography; Phonology; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4344644606     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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