Is lexical access autonomous? Evidence from combining overlapping tasks with recording event-related brain potentials

Brain Research

Volumn 1222, Issue , 2008, Pages 156-165

  Rabovsky, Milena ^a   Álvarez, Carlos J ^b   Hohlfeld, Annette ^c   Sommer, Werner ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; ERP; Lexical access; Overlapping tasks; Visual word recognition; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 46749135110     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.066     Document Type: Article

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