Why does lexical selection have to be so hard? Comment on Abdel Rahman and Melinger's swinging lexical network proposal

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 735-748

  Mahon, Bradford Z ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical competition; Picture word interference paradigm; Response exclusion hypothesis; Semantic facilitation; Semantic interference

Indexed keywords

ALEXIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 70549099730     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802597276     Document Type: Article

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