Concreteness in word processing: ERP and behavioral effects in a lexical decision task

Brain and Language

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-53

  Barber, Horacio A ^a   Otten, Leun J ^b   Kousta, Stavroula Thaleia ^c   Vigliocco, Gabriella ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Imageability; Lexical representation; N400 N700; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875633991     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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