How a hobby can shape cognition: Visual word recognition in competitive Scrabble players

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Hargreaves, Ian S ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^a   Zdrazilova, Lenka ^a   Sargious, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expertise; Individual differences; Lexical processing; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEISURE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; HOBBIES; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84555209323     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0137-5     Document Type: Article

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