Automaticity and attentional control in spoken language processing: Neurophysiological evidence

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-276

  Shtyrov, Yury ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Brain; Electroencephalography (EEG); Event related potentials and fields (ERP ERF); Language; Lexical access; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Memory trace; Mismatch negativity (MMN)

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650290869     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.5.2.06sht     Document Type: Article

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