Lexical embeddings produce interference when they are morphologically unrelated to the words in which they are contained: Evidence from eye movements

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 179-188

  Weingartner, Kristin M ^a   Juhasz, Barbara J ^b   Rayner, Keith ^c  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Lexical embedding; Orthographic neighbour; Reading; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENT; EYE MOVEMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION; GAZE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84862025681     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2011.604028     Document Type: Article

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