Tracking lexical access in speech production: Electrophysiological correlates of word frequency and cognate effects

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 912-928

  Strijkers, Kristof ^a,b   Costa, Albert ^b   Thierry, Guillaume ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERP; Language production; Lexical activation; Time course

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949384928     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp153     Document Type: Article

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