The effects on priming of word frequency, number of repetitions, and delay depend on the magnitude of priming

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 40-60

  Ostergaard, Arne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031913931     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211369     Document Type: Article

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