Selective Attention and Distractor Frequency in Naming Performance: Comment on Dhooge and Hartsuiker (2010)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1032-1038

  Roelofs, Ardi ^a   Piai, Vitória ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Frequency; Interference; Masking; Naming

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79960310842     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023328     Document Type: Note

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