The role of short-term memory in semantic priming

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 329-350

  Beer, Anton L ^a   Diehl, Virginia A ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical decision; Priming; Semantic memory; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0035405495     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221300109598915     Document Type: Article

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