Disambiguating form and lexical frequency effects in MEG responses using homonyms

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-287

  Simon, Dylan Alexander ^a   Lewis, Gwyneth ^a   Marantz, Alec ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homonym; Lexical access; MEG; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84856911495     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2011.607712     Document Type: Article

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