ERP measures of partial semantic knowledge: Left temporal indices of skill differences and lexical quality

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 130-147

  Frishkoff, Gwen A ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^a   Westbury, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Individual differences; Reading; Semantic processing; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049193699     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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