Left-lateralized N170 response to unpronounceable pseudo but not false Chinese characters-the key role of orthography

Neuroscience

Volumn 190, Issue , 2011, Pages 200-206

  Lin, S E ^a,b   Chen, H C ^c   Zhao, J ^a   Li, S ^a   He, S ^d   Weng, X C ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese character; N170; Orthography; Phonology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOGRAPHY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WRITING;

EID: 80051594576     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.05.071     Document Type: Article

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