Making things difficult in lexical decision: The impact of pseudohomophones and transposed-letter nonwords on frequency and semantic priming effects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1267-1289

  Lupker, Stephen J ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frequency effects; Lexical processing; Nonword difficulty; Pseudohomophones; Semantic priming; Transposed letter nonwords

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77956540328     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020125     Document Type: Article

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