On the strength of connections between localist mental modules as a source of frequency-of-occurrence effects

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 393-398

  Besner, Derek ^a   Moroz, Sarah ^a   O'Malley, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cognitive processes; naming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79954498290     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610397957     Document Type: Article

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