T1 difficulty affects the AB: Manipulating T1 word frequency and T1 orthographic neighbor frequency

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 751-765

  Burt, Jennifer S ^a   Howard, Samantha ^a   Falconer, Emmaline K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Orthographic neighbors; RSVP.Word frequency; Visual word identification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 79959743474     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0054-x     Document Type: Article

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