The influence of contextual diversity on word learning

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1214-1220

  Johns, Brendan T ^a   Dye, Melody ^b   Jones, Michael N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Language comprehension; Semantic memory; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947934161     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0980-7     Document Type: Article

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