Effects of speed of word processing on semantic access: The case of bilingualism

Brain and Language

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-65

  Martin, Clara D ^a   Costa, Albert ^a,b   Dering, Benjamin ^c   Hoshino, Noriko ^d   Wu, Yan Jing ^c   Thierry, Guillaume ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language control; Lexical access; N400; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855349329     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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