Modeling Lexical Decision: The Form of Frequency and Diversity Effects

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 214-227

  Adelman, James S ^a   Brown, Gordon D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bootstrap; contextual diversity; lexical decision; mathematical modeling; word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERIODICITY; VOCABULARY;

EID: 39049149929     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.214     Document Type: Article

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