Pseudohomophone effects provide evidence of early lexico-phonological processing in visual word recognition

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1977-1989

  Braun, Mario ^a   Hutzler, Florian ^b   Ziegler, Johannes C ^c   Dambacher, Michael ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

ERP; Inferior frontal gyrus; Insula; Lexical decision; LORETA; P150; Phonology; Superior temporal gyrus; Supramarginal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 67649667018     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20643     Document Type: Article

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