Centro-parietal N200: An event-related potential component specific to Chinese visual word recognition

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1516-1532

  Zhang, John X ^a,b   Fang, Zhuo ^b   Du, Ying Chun ^c   Kong, Ling Yue ^d   Zhang, Qin ^e   Xing, Qiang ^f  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

alphabetic script; Chinese character; meaning spelling theory; N200; orthography; word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860137829     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4932-y     Document Type: Article

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