Case alternation and length effects in lateralized word recognition: Studies of English and Hebrew

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 257-271

  Lavidor, Michal ^a   Ellis, Andrew W ^b   Pansky, Ainat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Case alternation; Hemispheres; Lexical decision; Visual fields; Word length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036931207     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(02)00508-0     Document Type: Article

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