The word class effect in the picture-word interference paradigm

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1233-1246

  Janssen, Niels ^a   Melinger, Alissa ^b   Mahon, Bradford Z ^c,d   Finkbeiner, Matthew ^e   Caramazza, Alfonso ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammatical class; Imageability; Lexical access; Lexical selection; Picture word interference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77952802213     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903377380     Document Type: Article

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