How to drastically reduce priming in word stem completion - And still present the words

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 208-219

  Brooks III, John O ^a,c   Gibson, Janet M ^b   Friedman, Leah ^a   Yesavage, Jerome A ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; PHONEME; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032927306     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211406     Document Type: Article

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