Assessing the role of different spatial frequencies in word perception by good and poor readers

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 961-971

  Patching, Geoffrey R ^a   Jordan, Timothy R ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LINGUISTICS; PERIODICITY; VISION;

HUMANS; PERIODICITY; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33645089226     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193205     Document Type: Article

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