The long and short of semantic priming effects in lexical decision

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1083-1105

  Joordens, Steve ^a   Becker, Suzanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 0031230665     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.23.5.1083     Document Type: Article

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