Morphological processing of printed nouns and verbs: Cross-class priming effects

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 433-460

  Crepaldi, Davide ^a   Morone, Elena Angela ^a   Arduino, Lisa Saskia ^b,c   Luzzatti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Grammatical class; Linguistic morphology; Priming; Reading; Word identification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITION PRIMING; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NOUN; PHONEME; RESPONSE TIME; VERB;

EID: 84899456796     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2014.895007     Document Type: Article

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