How priming affects two speeded implicit tests of remembering: Naming colors versus reading words

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 73-90

  MacLeod, Colin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; HUMAN; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY TEST; READING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 0030092132     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1996.0005     Document Type: Article

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