The time course of semantic richness effects in visual word recognition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Rabovsky, Milena ^a   Sommer, Werner ^a   Abdel Rahman, Rasha ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GLOBAL FIELD POWER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTIC RICHNESS; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 85117434571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00011     Document Type: Article

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