On the role of competing word units in visual word recognition: The neighborhood frequency effect

1989/05/01 by Jonathan Grainger, J. Kevin O’regan, J. Kevin Ο’Regan +3 · 327 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Computer science #Gaze #Lexical decision task #Linguistics #Natural language processing #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Orthographic projection #Pattern recognition (psychology) #Psychology #Reading and Literacy Development #Speech recognition #Stimulus (psychology) #Word (group theory) #Word lists by frequency #Word recognition

paper · pdf · doi:10.3758/bf03210696

published in Perception & Psychophysics 45(3), 189-195 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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