Abstract n This paper presents evidence of the disputed existence of an electrophysiological
marker for the lexical-categorical distinction between open-and closed-class words. Event …

Psycholinguistic theories propose that words of the 2 major vocabulary classes, content
(open-class) and function (closed-class) words, are computationally distinct and have …

Visual word recognition requires the matching of an orthographic unit to its meaning via a
phonological unit in the mental lexicon. The nature and the speed of this process are …

Many studies have shown that open-and closed-class words elicit different patterns of brain
activity, as manifested in the scalp-recorded event-related potential (ERP). One hypothesis …

Discriminations were required between words, pseudohomophones, and visually matched
nonwords. Two tasks were employed, one which could be accomplished on the basis of a …

Spectral power and coherence of the electroencephalogram was measured while subjects
read either a verb or a noun which initiated a short meaningful phrase. For both types of …

We investigated how linguistic intention affects the time course of visual word recognition by
comparing the brain's electrophysiological response to a word's lexical frequency, a well …

Various neurological conditions, including left perisylvian stroke, herpes simplex
encephalitis and progressive degenerative disease, may cause highly specific impairments …

Previous research on open-and closed-class words has revealed the existence of several
differences in the processing of these types of vocabulary. In this paper the processing of …

EEG correlates of a range of psycholinguistic word properties were used to investigate the
time course of access to psycholinguistic information during visual word recognition …