Additivity of Factor Effects in Reading Tasks Is Still a Challenge for Computational Models: Reply to Ziegler, Perry, and Zorzi (2009)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 312-316

  Besner, Derek ^a   O'Malley, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

additive effects; reading aloud; stimulus quality; word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 58449098425     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014555     Document Type: Article

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