Subliminal psychodynamic activation: Methodological problems and questions in silverman's experiments

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 235-244

  Fudin, Robert ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA FOVEA; STANDARD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELD;

FORM PERCEPTION; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LIGHT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033176747     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1999.89.1.235     Document Type: Article

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