A stimulus sampling theory of letter identity and order

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 254-271

  Norris, Dennis ^a   Kinoshita, Sachiko ^b   van Casteren, Maarten ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian Reader; Letter position coding; Masked priming; Open Bigrams; Position noise; SOLAR; Transposed letter (TL) effects; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949275862     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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