Are there differential word length effects in the two visual fields?

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-485

  Fang, Sheng Ping ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cerebral lateralization; Chinese characters; Modes of word recognition; Visual fields; Visual lexicon; Word length effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038705153     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00069-5     Document Type: Article

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