There is no clam with coats in the calm coast: Delimiting the transposed-letter priming effect

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1930-1947

  Dunabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Letter position assignment; Lexicality; Orthographic encoding; Priming; Transposed letter effect

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SPAIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPAIN; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70449578676     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802696070     Document Type: Article

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