Explicit semantic tasks are necessary to study semantic priming effects with high rates of repetition

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 741-754

  Renoult, Louis ^a,b   Wang, Xiaoxiao ^b   Mortimer, Jennifer ^a   Debruille, J Bruno ^a,b  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Lexicality; Massive repetition; N400; Semantics; Source analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEXICAL DECISION TASK; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD REPETITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857794465     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.08.025     Document Type: Article

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