The accessibility of characters in single sentences: Proper names, common nouns, and first mention

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 356-361

  McDonald, Janet L ^a   Shaibe, Deborah M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NOMENCLATURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; NAMES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0036616346     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196293     Document Type: Article

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