Semantic transparency in free stems: The effect of Orthography-Semantics Consistency on word recognition

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1571-1583

  Marelli, Marco ^a   Amenta, Simona ^b   Crepaldi, Davide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributional semantic models; Megastudies; Orthography Semantics Consistency; Visual word identification

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84936846532     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.959709     Document Type: Article

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