Serial mechanisms in lexical access: The rank hypothesis

Psychological Review

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 721-756

  Murray, W S ^a   Forster, K I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARIZONA; AUSTRALIA; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 3042735729     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.111.3.721     Document Type: Article

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