Does stimulus appearance affect learning?

American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 275-299

  Pothos, Emmanuel M ^a,d   Chater, Nick ^b   Ziori, Eleni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION;

COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33746862964     PISSN: 00029556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20445339     Document Type: Article

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