The effects of ageing and visual noise on conceptual integration during sentence reading

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1833-1847

  Gao, Xuefei ^a   Levinthal, Brian R ^b   Stine Morrow, Elizabeth A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Conceptual integration; Reading; Visual noise

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865994334     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.674146     Document Type: Article

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