Chronometry of visual word recognition during passive and lexical decision tasks: An ERP investigation

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1401-1432

  Simon, Grégory ^a   Bernard, Christian ^a   Largy, Pierre ^a   Lalonde, Robert ^a   Rebai, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Dual route theory; Event related potentials; N170; N320; N400; PDP models; Reading; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHONEME; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 7044260829     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450490476057     Document Type: Article

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