The temporal dynamics of ambiguity resolution: Evidence from spoken-word recognition

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 483-501

  Dahan, Delphine ^a   Gareth Gaskell, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamical processing; Eye tracking; Gating; Lexical competition; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748850687     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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