German capitalization of nouns and the detection of letters in continuous text

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 143-158

  Müsseler, Jochen ^a   Nißlein, Monika ^b   Koriat, Asher ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33644815652     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087470     Document Type: Article

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