Are Phonemic Effects in Backward Masking Evidence for Automatic Prelexical Phonemic Activation in Visual Word Recognition?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 335-356

  Verstaen, Alexander ^a   Humphreys, Glyn W ^b   Olson, Andrew ^b   D’ydewalle, Géry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001539075     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1995.1015     Document Type: Article

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