The effect of neighborhood frequency in reading: Evidence with transposed-letter neighbors

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 290-300

  Acha, Joana ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Letter position assignment; Orthographic encoding; Transposed letter effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PERIODICITY; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44249101368     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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