NoA's ark: Influence of the number of associates in visual word recognition

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1072-1077

  Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a   Avilés, Alberto ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 59049104954     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.6.1072     Document Type: Article

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