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Direct linkLien, Mei-Ching; Ruthruff, Eric; Cornett, Logan; Goodin, Zachary; Allen, Philip A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The present study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to determine the degree to which people can process words while devoting central attention to another task. Experiments 1-4 measured the N400 effect, which is sensitive to the degree of mismatch between a word and the current semantic context. Experiment 5 measured the P3 difference between…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli, Brain Hemisphere Functions
