Gender differences on the semantic flanker task using transposed-letter target words

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2008-2017

  Judge, Jeannie ^a   Taylor, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congruency effects; Gender differences; Letter transpositions; Perceptual load; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867200194     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.676654     Document Type: Article

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