Competition processes in visual word recognition

In this thesis we show that lexical decisions (LDT) to isolated words are slowed when a target word has either, many orthographic competitors (defined as words sharing outer letter frames), or a single strong competitor (defined as words sharing all letters, e.g. from/form). This result is not found...

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Main Author: Voice, Julie Kate
Published: University of Edinburgh 1996
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.663301