The Activation of Embedded Words in Spoken Word Identification Is Robust but Constrained: Evidence From the Picture-Word Interference Paradigm

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1585-1597

  Bowers, Jeffrey S ^a   Davis, Colin J ^b   Mattys, Sven L ^a   Damian, Markus F ^a   Hanley, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

embedded words; shortlist; spoken word identification; TRACE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350504104     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015870     Document Type: Article

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