Examining the phonological neighborhood density effect using near infrared spectroscopy

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1363-1370

  Chen, Hsin Chin ^a   Vaid, Jyotsna ^b   Boas, David A ^c   Bortfeld, Heather ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood oxygenation; Hemodynamic measure; Lexical decision; NIRS; Optical imaging; Phonological neighbors; Phonological processing; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80051569959     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21115     Document Type: Article

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