Blocking by word frequency and neighborhood density in visual word recognition: A task-specific response criteria account

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1090-1102

  Perea, Manuel ^a,d   Carreiras, Manuel ^b   Grainger, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEMASKING TASK; DENSITY BLOCKING; FREQUENCY BLOCKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEXICAL DECISION TASK; MODEL; MULTIPLE READ OUT MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; READING; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 14844297338     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196884     Document Type: Article

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