Inference suppression and semantic memory retrieval: Every counterexample counts

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 581-595

  De Neys, Wim ^a   Schaeken, Walter ^a   D'Ydewalle, Géry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037634173     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196099     Document Type: Article

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