Priming of Visual and Functional Knowledge on a Semantic Classification Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-53

  Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a,b   Gabrieli, John D E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032601965     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.25.1.41     Document Type: Article

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