Attention and Conceptual Priming: Limits on the Effects of Divided Attention in the Category-Exemplar Production Task

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 253-280

  Mulligan, Neil W ^a   Stone, Maria ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Attention and memory; implicit and explicit memory; divided attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001632951     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2648     Document Type: Article

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