Masked phonological priming effects in English: Are they real? Do they matter?

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-145

  Rastle, Kathleen ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DRC model; Masked phonological priming; Phonology; Reading aloud; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VISION;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746005934     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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