Response time distributional evidence for distinct varieties of number attraction

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 447-454

  Staub, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Response time; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 76349104431     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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