No enemies in the neighborhood: Absence of inhibitory neighborhood effects in lexical decision and semantic categorization

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 696-713

  Forster, Kenneth I ^a,b   Shen, Di ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030137215     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.22.3.696     Document Type: Article

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