Lexical access in early stages of visual word processing: A single-trial correlational MEG study of heteronym recognition

Brain and Language

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 191-196

  Solomyak, Olla ^a   Marantz, Alec ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heteronym; Lexical access; M170; MEG; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 59649092547     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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