The role of lexical-semantic neighborhood in object naming: Implications for models of lexical access

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2011, Pages

  Bormann, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Interference; Lexical access; Lexical semantic cohorts; Speech production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867128720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00127     Document Type: Article

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