Negative priming and stimulus familiarity: What causes opposite results?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 369-379

  Nagai, Jun Ichi ^a   Yokosawa, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE PRIMING; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037572345     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194395     Document Type: Article

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