Positive and negative semantic priming of attended and unattended parafoveal words in a lexical decision task

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 209-226

  Ortells, Juan J ^a   Tudela, Pio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Negative semantic priming; Parafoveal vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001144544     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-6918(95)00045-3     Document Type: Article

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