The role of low-spatial frequencies in lexical decision and masked priming

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 580-591

  Boden, C ^a   Giaschi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Lexical decision; Magnocellular pathway; Priming; Reading; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60849089622     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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