Word frequency, repetition, and lexicality effects in word recognition tasks: beyond measures of central tendency.
Response time (RT) distributions obtained from 3 word recognition experiments were analyzed by fitting an ex-Gaussian function to the empirical data to determine the main effects and interactive influences of word frequency, repetition, and lexicality on the nature of the underlying distributions....
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. General Vol. 128; no. 1; pp. 32 - 56 |
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American Psychological Association
March 1999
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