Masked repetition and translation priming in second language learners: A window on the time-course of form and meaning activation using ERPs

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 551-565

  Midgley, Katherine J ^a,b   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Masked priming; N250; N400; Second language acquisition; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL N250; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL N400; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LEARNING; MALE; MASKED REPETITION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING; SEMANTICS; TIME; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 64149123285     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00784.x     Document Type: Article

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