ERP correlates of transposed-letter priming effects: The role of vowels versus consonants

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-42

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a   Vergara, Marta ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consonants and vowels; ERPs; Masked priming; Transposed letters; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149105327     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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