Ambiguity and relatedness effects in semantic tasks: Are they due to semantic coding?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-273

  Hino, Yasushi ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^b   Lupker, Stephen J ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambiguity effect; Relatedness of meanings effect; Semantic coding; Words' orthographic to semantic relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745810541     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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