Early perception of written syllables in French: An event-related potential study

Brain and Language

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-60

  Doignon Camus, Nadège ^a   Bonnefond, Anne ^a   Touzalin Chretien, Pascale ^a   Dufour, André ^a  

^a Université de Strasbourg Faculté de Psychologie   (France)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Illusory conjunctions; Syllable; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRANCE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RECORDING; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 70349339219     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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