The effects of associative and semantic priming in the lexical decision task

Psychological Research

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 180-194

  Perea, Manuel ^a   Rosa, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036690083     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-002-0086-5     Document Type: Article

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