Parallel processing of whole words and morphemes in visual word recognition

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1798-1819

  Beyersmann, Elisabeth ^a   Coltheart, Max ^a   Castles, Anne ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Letter transpositions; Lexical decision; Morphological decomposition; Visual word recognition; Whole word processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84865986091     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.672437     Document Type: Article

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