Perceiving the writing sequence of Chinese characters: An ERP investigation

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 782-795

  Qiu, Yinchen ^a,b   Zhou, Xiaolin ^c,d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; ERP; FRN; N2; P3; Sequence processing; Sequence writing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE WRITING; SKILL RETENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING; ASIAN; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952294197     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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