Differential sensitivity of letters, numbers, and symbols to character transpositions

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1610-1624

  Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a   Dimitropoulou, Maria ^a,b   Grainger, Jonathan ^c,d   Hernández, Juan Andrés ^b   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,e,f  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^f BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHABET LETTER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHARACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUMBER; PERCEPTION; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861557959     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00180     Document Type: Article

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