Pictures, words, and sounds: From which format are we best able to reason?

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 439-459

  Goolkasian, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Format effects; Multimedia; Picture word differences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; SOUND;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SOUND; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034304239     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221300009598596     Document Type: Article

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