Evidence for early morphological decomposition in visual word recognition

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2042-2057

  Solomyak, Olla ^a   Marantz, Alec ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956377710     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21296     Document Type: Article

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