Dissociating the influence of familiarity and meaningfulness from word frequency in naming and lexical decision performance

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1312-1324

  Colombo, Lucia ^a,d   Pasini, Margherita ^b   Balota, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846015823     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193274     Document Type: Article

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