When underadditivity of factor effects in the Psychological Refractory Period paradigm implies a bottleneck: Evidence from psycholinguistics

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2222-2234

  Besner, Derek ^a   Reynolds, Mike ^b   O'Malley, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Lexical processing; Nonlexical processing; Psychological Refractory Period paradigm; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; LOGIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349527977     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902747187     Document Type: Article

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