From orthography to meaning: an electrophysiological investigation of the role of phonology in accessing meaning of Chinese single-character words

Neuroscience

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-106

  Wang, K ^a,b,c   Mecklinger, A ^b   Hofmann, J ^b   Weng, X ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

ERP; homophone; N450; phonology; semantic; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; WAVEFORM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449635076     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.09.070     Document Type: Article

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