Orthographic Processing in Visual Word Recognition: A Multiple Read-Out Model

Psychological Review

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 518-565

  Grainger, Jonathan ^a,b   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030195303     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.103.3.518     Document Type: Article

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