Parallel distributed processing and lexical-semantic effects in visual word recognition: Are a few stages necessary?

Psychological Review

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 181-195

  Borowsky, Ron ^a   Besner, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lexicalsemantic priming; Parallel distributed processing (PDP); Stages of processing; Stimulus quality; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; VISION;

HUMANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33244489353     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.113.1.181     Document Type: Review

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