Practice effects in large-scale visual word recognition studies: A lexical decision study on 14,000 dutch mono-and disyllabic words and nonwords

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Keuleers, Emmanuel ^a   Diependaele, Kevin ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dutch; Lexical decision; Megastudy; Practice effect; Pseudowords; Reaction time; Visual word recognition; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953217137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00174     Document Type: Article

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