Encoding operation and transcoding as the major loci of the frequency effect

Cognition

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-168

  Liu, In Mao ^a   Wu, Jei Tun ^b   Chou, Tai Li ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030137706     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(95)00688-5     Document Type: Article

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