Electrophysiological correlates of early processing of visual word recognition: N2 as an index of visual category feature processing

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 473, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-36

  Zhang, Ye ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Yang, Qun ^a   Zhang, Qinglin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Latin letters; N2; Visual category feature processing; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CHINESE; CHINESE CHARACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATIN LETTER; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; N2 COMPONENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND LANGUAGE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950627241     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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