Left-lateralized N170 effects of visual expertise in reading: Evidence from Japanese syllabic and logographic scripts

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1878-1891

  Maurer, Urs ^a   Zevin, Jason D ^a   McCandliss, Bruce D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LATERAL LINE SYSTEM; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMBOLISM; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 55049141761     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20125     Document Type: Article

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