Frequency and regularity effects in reading are task dependent: Evidence from ERPs

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1342-1355

  Fischer Baum, Simon ^a   Dickson, Danielle S ^b   Federmeier, Kara D ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; Lexical frequency; Spelling to sound regularity; Task dependent processing; Visual word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84907960905     PISSN: 23273798     EISSN: 23273801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2014.927067     Document Type: Article

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