Development of memory structures for homographs using pathfinder network representations

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-27

  Nievas, Francisco ^a   Justicia, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cohort effect; Memory structure representations; Pathfinder; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0141688373     PISSN: 11387416     EISSN: 19882904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600005175     Document Type: Article

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