1st Edition

Automaticity and Control in Language Processing

Edited By Antje Meyer, Linda Wheeldon, Andrea Krott Copyright 2007
306 Pages
by Psychology Press

306 Pages
by Psychology Press

306 Pages
by Psychology Press

The use of language is a fundamental component of much of our day-to-day life. Language often co-occurs with other activities with which it must be coordinated. This raises the question of whether the cognitive processes involved in planning spoken utterances and in understanding them are autonomous or whether they are affected by, and perhaps affect, non-linguistic cognitive processes, with... Read more

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Biography

Antje S. Meyer is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Linda Wheeldon is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Andrea Krott is Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK.