Words and pictures: An electrophysiological investigation of domain specific processing in native Chinese and English speakers

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1910-1922

  Yum, Yen Na ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chinese character; ERP; N170; N400; Picture processing; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHINA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956107919     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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