The Relative Position Priming Effect Depends on Whether Letters Are Vowels or Consonants

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1143-1163

  Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^b  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consonants and vowels; Lexical constraint hypothesis; Relative position priming; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052837418     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023577     Document Type: Article

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