The time-course of single-word reading: Evidence from fast behavioral and brain responses

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1462-1477

  Hauk, O ^a   Coutout, C ^a   Holden, A ^a,b   Chen, Y ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EEG; Go NoGo paradigm; Lexical decision task; MEG; Semantic decision task; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862821493     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.061     Document Type: Article

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