ERP correlates of inhibitory and facilitative effects of constituent frequency in compound word reading

Brain Research

Volumn 1257, Issue , 2009, Pages 53-64

  Vergara Martínez, Marta ^a,c   Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a   Laka, Itziar ^b   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compound word processing; Constituent frequency; Early negativity; N400; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; EVOKED RESPONSE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; READING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63349096750     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.12.040     Document Type: Article

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