Is there a genuine advantage to the upper part of words during lexical access? Evidence from the Stroop task.
A number of recent visual-word recognition and reading experiments have concluded that the upper part of words is more important for lexical access than is the lower part, which conforms with Huey's () observation. Here, we examined whether this phenomenon may simply be due to the fact that words in...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 834 - 842 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Aug2014
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