Ambiguity and Synonymy Effects in Lexical Decision, Naming, and Semantic Categorization Tasks: Interactions between Orthography, Phonology, and Semantics

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 686-713

  Hino, Yasushi ^a   Lupker, Stephen J ^b   Pexman, Penny M ^c,d  

^a CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 85047674724     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.28.4.686     Document Type: Article

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