Word frequency and the lateralization of lexical processes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 142-148

  Coney, Jeffrey ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hemispheres; Lateralization; Lexical decision; Lexical processing; Word frequency; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 5644266229     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.03.001     Document Type: Article

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