Age of acquisition and typicality effects in three object processing tasks

Visual Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 884-910

  Holmes, Selina J ^a   Ellis, Andrew W ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33745065839     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280544000093     Document Type: Article

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