The effect of asymmetrical association on positive and negative semantic priming

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1263-1276

  Hutchison, Keith A ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0036932055     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213408     Document Type: Article

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