Lexical processing of ambiguous words: Dominance or associative strength?

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-179

  Nievas, Francisco ^a   Justicia, Fernando ^b   Cañas, José J ^b   Bajo, M Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associative strength; Automatic and strategic processes; Dominance; Homographs; Lexical decision task; SOA

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144548318     PISSN: 11387416     EISSN: 19882904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600005059     Document Type: Article

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