Does richness lose its luster? effects of extensive practice on semantic richness in visual word recognition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2012, Pages

  Hargreaves, Ian S ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lexical decision task; Practice effects; Reaction time; Semantic richness; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84933678562     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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