Orthographic combinability and phonological consistency effects in reading Chinese phonograms: An event-related potential study

Brain and Language

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-66

  Hsu, Chun Hsien ^a   Tsai, Jie Li ^b   Lee, Chia Ying ^b,c   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Combinability effect; Consistency effect; N170; N400; P200

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57249095813     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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