Suppression of mirror generalization for reversible letters: Evidence from masked priming

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-246

  Perea, Manuel ^a   Moret Tatay, Carmen ^a,b   Panadero, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALENCIA SAN VICENTE MÁRTIR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Masked priming; Mirror letters; Orthographic processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052032578     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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