Toward a theory of automatic information processing in reading

1974/04/01 by David LaBerge, S.Jay Samuels, S. Jay Samuels · 3,829 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Associative property #Automaticity #Cognition #Cognitive Science and Education Research #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Information processing #Information processing theory #Levels-of-processing effect #Linguistics #Natural language processing #Perception #Psychology #Reading (process) #Reading and Literacy Development #Semantic memory #Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(74)90015-2

published in Cognitive Psychology 6(2), 293-323 (Elsevier BV)

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