Cross-language positive priming disappears, negative priming does not: Evidence for two sources of selective inhibition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1051-1063

  Neumann, Ewald ^a,d   McCloskey, Michael S ^b   Amy, Felio C ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032723414     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201234     Document Type: Article

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