Effects of syllable-frequency in lexical decision and naming: An eye-movement study

Brain and Language

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-152

  Hutzler, Florian ^a   Conrad, Markus ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 11144352242     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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