Sentence context affects the brain response to masked words

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 149-155

  Coulson, Seana ^a   Brang, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Masked priming; N400; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PERCEPTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952479917     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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