Modeling the Effects of Choice-Set Size on the Processing of Letters and Words

Psychological Review

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 80-93

  Rouder, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEARNING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0742271421     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.111.1.80     Document Type: Article

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