Qualitative differences between the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in reading aloud and lexical decision: Extensions to Yap and Balota (2007)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 451-458

  O'Malley, Shannon ^a   Reynolds, Michael G ^b   Besner, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lexical decision; Reading aloud; Stimulus quality; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33947515451     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.451     Document Type: Article

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