Processing visual words with numbers: Electrophysiological evidence for semantic activation

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1056-1066

  Lien, Mei Ching ^a   Allen, Philip ^b   Martin, Nicole ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Semantic activation; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904464569     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0581-x     Document Type: Article

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