Re(de)fining the Orthographic Neighborhood: The Role of Addition and Deletion Neighbors in Lexical Decision and Reading

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1550-1570

  Davis, Colin J ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b   Acha, Joana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

lexical inhibition; neighborhood effects; orthographic input coding; SOLAR model; visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; READING; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70350514272     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014253     Document Type: Article

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