Automaticity in reading and the Stroop task: Testing the limits of involuntary word processing

American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 515-543

  Brown, Tracy L ^a   Joneleit, Kelly ^a   Robinson, Cathy S ^a   Brown, Carli Rose ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION;

ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036984847     PISSN: 00029556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1423526     Document Type: Article

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