When less is more: Feedback, priming, and the pseudoword superiority effect

Brain Research

Volumn 1386, Issue , 2011, Pages 153-164

  Massol, Stéphanie ^a   Midgley, Katherine J ^a,b   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b   Grainger, Jonathan ^a,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

ERP; Masked priming; Orthographic neighborhood; Pseudoword superiority effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79953855796     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.02.050     Document Type: Article

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