On the role of consonants and vowels in visual-word processing: Evidence with a letter search paradigm

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 423-438

  Acha, Joana ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Letter position identity; Visual word recognition; Vowels consonants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951171541     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960903411666     Document Type: Article

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