Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-183

  Graves, William W ^a   Binder, Jeffrey R ^a   Seidenberg, Mark S ^b   Desai, Rutvik H ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronometry, and ERP; Dual route cascaded (DRC) model; Hemodynamic functional neuroimaging; Neural correlates of language production; Neural correlates of semantic, in reading aloud; Orthographic (visual word form); Parallel distributed processing (PDP) models; Word frequency effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878223147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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