Letter position information and printed word perception: The relative-position priming constraint

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 865-884

  Grainger, Jonathan ^a,d   Granier, Jean Pierre ^a   Farioli, Fernand ^a   Van Assche, Eva ^b   Van Heuven, Walter J B ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Letter position coding; Masked priming; Orthographic processing; Relative position priming; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; ORIENTATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 33746602796     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.32.4.865     Document Type: Article

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