Differential processing of consonants and vowels in lexical access through reading

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1223-1227

  New, Boris ^a,b   Araújo, Verónica ^b,c   Nazzi, Thierry ^c  

^a Université Paris Descartes ^*  (France)

^b LIPADE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FRANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PARIS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 57649217016     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02228.x     Document Type: Article

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