Semantic asymmetries are modulated by phonological asymmetries: Evidence from the disambiguation of homophonic versus heterophonic homographs

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 154-162

  Peleg, Orna ^a   Eviatar, Zohar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cerebral asymmetries; Lexical decision; Phonological ambiguity; Priming; Reading; Semantic ambiguity; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64049109676     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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