Distractor strength and selective attention in picture-naming performance

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 614-627

  Piai, Vitória ^a   Roelofs, Ardi ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Lexical selection; Masking; Picture naming; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864434713     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0171-3     Document Type: Article

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