Windows into the positional encoding of stems and affixes: evidence from morpheme transposition effects via ERPs.
While behavioural evidence has demonstrated that stems can be recognised irrespective of position and affixes are subject to more nuanced positional constraints, the present study employed EEG to observe this aspect of visual word recognition. Morphemically transposed compound nonwords (dreamday) el...
| Publicado en: | Language, Cognition & Neuroscience Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 742 - 762 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts tracings Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2026
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