Simulating syllable frequency effects within an interactive activation framework

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 861-893

  Conrad, Markus ^a   Tamm, Sascha ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^b   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computational models; Lexical decision; Syllable frequency; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPLE READ OUT MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77954963427     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440903356777     Document Type: Review

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