How does arabic orthographic connectivity modulate brain activity during visual word recognition: An ERP study

Brain Topography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 292-302

  Taha, Haitham ^a   Ibrahim, Raphiq ^a   Khateb, Asaid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabic orthography; Event related potentials; Lexical decision; N170 component; Source localization; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARAB WORLD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880699344     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0241-2     Document Type: Article

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