Early visual word processing is flexible: Evidence from spatiotemporal brain dynamics

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1738-1751

  Chen, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Davis, Matthew H ^b   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^b,c   Hauk, Olaf ^b  

^a Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

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

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84944452475     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00815     Document Type: Article

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