Lexical Precision in Skilled Readers: Individual Differences in Masked Neighbor Priming

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 299-318

  Andrews, Sally ^a   Hersch, Jolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lexical retrieval; Masked priming; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77954796479     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018366     Document Type: Article

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