Neurophysiological Evidence for Underspecified Lexical Representations: Asymmetries With Word Initial Variations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1545-1559

  Friedrich, Claudia K ^a   Lahiri, Aditi ^a   Eulitz, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERPs; fragment priming; lexical activation; speech recognition; underspecification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 57749178900     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012481     Document Type: Article

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