Reading Aloud: Evidence for Contextual Control Over Lexical Activation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 499-507

  Ferguson, Roy ^a   Robidoux, Serje ^a   Besner, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

contextual control; lexical activation; priming; relatedness proportion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; READING; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 65349111198     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013162     Document Type: Article

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