Semantic processing in visual word recognition: Activation blocking and domain specificity

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 778-784

  Brown, Matthew S ^a   Roberts, Martha Anne ^a   Besner, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION;

ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0035751651     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196217     Document Type: Article

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