Skilled readers begin processing sub-phonemic features by 80 ms during visual word recognition: Evidence from ERPs

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 84-94

  Ashby, Jane ^a   Sanders, Lisa D ^a   Kingston, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; Eye movements; Features; Masked priming; Phonology; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049215066     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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