The influence of word function in the missing-letter effect: Further evidence from French

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 666-676

  Saint Aubin, Jean ^a   Poirier, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0031228642     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211308     Document Type: Article

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