Getting it right: Word learning across the hemispheres

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 825-837

  Borovsky, Arielle ^a   Kutas, Marta ^a,b,c   Elman, Jeffrey L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral hemispheres; ERPs; Fast mapping; Language; N400; Priming; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875326478     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.01.027     Document Type: Article

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