The self-organization of a spoken word

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Holden, John G ^a   Rajaraman, Srinivasan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Interaction; Inverse power law; Response time distributions; Self organization; Speeded word naming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867136105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00209     Document Type: Article

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