Attention to local form information can prevent access to semantic information

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 609-625

  Murray, Janice E ^a   Jones, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036548514     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980143000370     Document Type: Article

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