Masked priming of words and nonwords in a naming task: Further evidence for a nonlexical basis for priming

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 399-412

  Masson, Michael E J ^a   Isaak, Matthew I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; PHONEME; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032916204     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211536     Document Type: Article

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