The Nature of the Mental Representation of Radicals in Chinese: A Priming Study

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 530-539

  Ding, Guosheng ^a   Peng, Danling ^a   Taft, Marcus ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; ORIENTATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

EID: 1542297768     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.2.530     Document Type: Article

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