Spatial layout of letters in nonwords affects visual short-term memory load: Evidence from human electrophysiology

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 430-436

  Prime, David ^a   Dell'acqua, Roberto ^b   Arguin, Martin ^a   Gosselin, Frédéric ^a   Jolicœur, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Lexical status; Reading; Sustained posterior contralateral negativity (SPCN); Visual short term memory (VSTM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551717337     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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