The role of awareness in semantic and syntactic processing: An ERP attentional blink study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2514-2529

  Batterink, Laura ^a   Karns, Christina M ^a   Yamada, Yoshiko ^a   Neville, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL REFLEX; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LINGUISTICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049446933     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21361     Document Type: Article

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