Are vowels and consonants processed differently? event-related potential evidence with a delayed letter paradigm

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 275-288

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a   Gillon Dowens, Margaret ^a   Vergara, Marta ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPAIN; SPEECH; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59949098032     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21023     Document Type: Article

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