Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different?

Psychophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 455-466

  Müller, Oliver ^a,b   Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a,c   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

^c BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Association; ERP; Language; Orthographic neighbors; Semantic representation; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950632024     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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