Exterior Letters Are Not Privileged in the Early Stage of Visual Word Recognition during Reading: Comment on Jordan, Thomas, Patching, and Scott-Brown (2003)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 894-899

  Inhoff, Albrecht W ^a   Radach, Ralph ^b   Eiter, Brianna M ^a   Skelly, Michael ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0142041447     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.5.894     Document Type: Review

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