Additive and interactive effects on response time distributions in visual word recognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 274-296

  Yap, Melvin J ^a   Balota, David A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive effects; Distributional analysis; Interactive effects; Stimulus quality; Task specific effects; Visual word recognition; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33947497585     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.274     Document Type: Article

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