Enhancement and suppression effects resulting from information structuring in sentences

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 880-888

  Sanford, Alison J S ^a   Price, Jessica ^b   Sanford, Anthony J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; READING; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349222869     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.6.880     Document Type: Article

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