An ERP study of category priming: Evidence of early lexical semantic access

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 122-129

  Segalowitz, Sidney J ^a   Zheng, Xin ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Category priming; ERP; Lexical semantics; N1; P1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; CUES; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049203997     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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