Interplay of orthography and semantics in reading: An event-related potential study

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1501-1505

  Martin, Clara D ^a,c   Thierry, Guillaume ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Lexical decision task; Morphological priming; Orthographic priming; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 53549117128     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328310108c     Document Type: Article

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