Orthographic transparency modulates the grain size of orthographic processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence from bilingualism

Brain Research

Volumn 1505, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-60

  Lallier, Marie ^a,b   Carreiras, Manuel ^b,c   Tainturier, Marie Josèphe ^a   Savill, Nicola ^a   Thierry, Guillaume ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Orthographic processing grain size; Orthographic transparency; Reading; Visual attention span

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ORTHOGRAPHIC PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875228352     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.02.018     Document Type: Article

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