Automaticity and consciousness: Is perceiving the word necessary for reading it?

American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 429-448

  Tzelgov, Joseph ^a   Porat, Ziv ^b   Henik, Avishai ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RECALL;

ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031230482     PISSN: 00029556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1423567     Document Type: Article

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