Contrasting five different theories of letter position coding: Evidence from orthographic similarity effects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 535-557

  Davis, Colin J ^a,b,c   Bowers, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational models; Letter migration; Lexical decision; Masked printing; Orthographic input coding; Reading; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; READING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746866297     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.32.3.535     Document Type: Article

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