The time course of consonant and vowel processing during word recognition

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 147-157

  New, Boris ^a,b   Nazzi, Thierry ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Consonants and vowels; Orthographic and phonological processing; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FILLER ITEM; FRENCHMAN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETERS; PHONETICS; PSEUDOWORD; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; TARGET WORD; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84928992526     PISSN: 23273798     EISSN: 23273801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.735678     Document Type: Article

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