What's in a word? A parametric study of semantic influences on visual word recognition

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 325-331

  Evans, Gemma A L ^a   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^a   Woollams, Anna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foil context; Imageability; Priming; Semantics; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858422098     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0213-7     Document Type: Article

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