Dynamics of the Attentional Control of Word Retrieval: Analyses of Response Time Distributions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 303-323

  Roelofs, Ardi ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attention; computational modeling; distributional analysis; memory retrieval; word production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 44149103636     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.2.303     Document Type: Article

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