Mechanisms of Unconscious Priming: I. Response Competition, Not Spreading Activation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 441-455

  Klinger, Mark R ^a,b   Burton, Philip C ^a   Shane Pitts, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0034150260     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.2.441     Document Type: Article

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