Priming and interference effects can be dissociated in the Stroop task: New evidence in favor of the automaticity of word recognition

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 113-118

  Catena, Andrés ^a   Fuentes, Luis J ^b   Tudela, Pío ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATISM; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036516847     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196265     Document Type: Article

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