The Rank Hypothesis and Lexical Decision: A Reply to Adelman and Brown (2008)

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 240-251

  Murray, Wayne S ^a   Forster, Kenneth I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Arizona

Author keywords

eye movements; frequency; mathematical modeling; rank; word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 39049106572     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.240     Document Type: Article

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