Holistic processing of words modulated by reading experience

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Wong, Alan C N ^a   Bukach, Cindy M ^b   Yuen, Crystal ^a   Yang, Lizhuang ^a   Leung, Shirley ^b   Greenspon, Emma ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; VISION;

HUMANS; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959211252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020753     Document Type: Article

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