Attentional control and the flexible lexical processor: Explorations of the magic moment of word recognition

From Inkmarks to Ideas: Current Issues in Lexical Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 229-258

  Balota, David A ^a   Yap, Melvin J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203841211     Document Type: Chapter

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