Different perceptual codes support priming for words and pseudowords: Was Morton right all along?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1336-1353

  Bowers, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0030293615     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.22.6.1336     Document Type: Article

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