Transposition effects in reading Japanese Kana: Are they orthographic in nature?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 700-707

  Perea, Manuel ^a   Nakatani, Chie ^b   van Leeuwen, Cees ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Masked priming. Visual word recognition. Coding scheme

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD; WRITING;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SACCADES; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS; WRITING;

EID: 80053375759     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0052-1     Document Type: Review

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