Linguistic focus and good-enough representations: An application of the change-detection paradigm

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 882-888

  Sturt, Patrick ^a   Sanford, Anthony J ^a   Stewart, Andrew ^b   Dawydiak, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 19644379497     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196716     Document Type: Article

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