Semantic advantage for learning new phonological form representations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 775-786

  Hawkins, Erin ^a   Astle, Duncan E ^b   Rastle, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONSONANT; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PHONEME; PHONETICS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTICS; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924171472     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00730     Document Type: Article

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