Is attention needed for word identification? Evidence from the Stroop paradigm

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 950-955

  Lachter, Joel ^a,b   Ruthruff, Eric ^c   Lien, Mei Ching ^d   McCann, Robert S ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; STATISTICS; VISION;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 58149476494     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.5.950     Document Type: Article

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