Cultural background influences the liminal perception of Chinese characters: An ERP study

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 416-426

  Peng, Gang ^a,b   Minett, James W ^a   Wang, William S Y ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Context updating; Cultural difference; ERP; Liminal perception; P300

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77952887651     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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