The time course of contextual effects on visual word recognition

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Chia Ying ^a,b,c,d   Liu, Yo Ning ^a   Tsai, Jie Li ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior N1; Contextual effect; Event related potentials; Lexical access; P200

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867134523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00285     Document Type: Article

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