Seeing stems everywhere: Position-independent identification of stem morphemes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 510-525

  Crepaldi, Davide ^a,b   Kathleen Rastle, ^b   Colin J Davis, ^b   Lupker, Stephen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lexical decision; Masked priming; Morpheme; Position coding; Visual word identification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SEMANTICS; STUDENT;

COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880972787     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029713     Document Type: Article

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