Word priming without awareness: A new approach to circumvent explicit memory contamination

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 149-169

  Beauregard, Mario ^a,d   Benhamou, Judith ^a,b   Laurent, Christine ^a,b   Chertkow, Howard ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brief multiple presentation; Contamination; Explicit memory; Implicit memory; Word priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEGENERATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0032956098     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1998.1073     Document Type: Article

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