Crowded words can be processed semantically: Evidence from an ERP study

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-95

  Peng, Chunhua ^a,b   Zhang, Yang ^b   Chen, Youguo ^d   Zhang, Ming ^b,c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crowding; Event related potentials (ERPs); N400; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROWDING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877636784     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: 18727697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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