Transposed-Letter Priming of Prelexical Orthographic Representations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-18

  Kinoshita, Sachiko ^a   Norris, Dennis ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

letter position coding; masked priming; orthographic similarity; same different match task; transposed letters

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 58449104404     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014277     Document Type: Article

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