Letter identification processes in reading: Distractor interference reveals an automatically engaged, domain-specific mechanism

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1083-1103

  Finkbeiner, Matthew ^a   Almeida, Jorge ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750185776     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290600665778     Document Type: Article

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