Semantic effects in lexical access: Evidence from single-word naming

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 547-565

  Wurn, Lee H ^a   Vakoch, Douglas A ^b   Aycock, Joanna ^a   Childers, Robyn R ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BOOK; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037931514     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930302302     Document Type: Review

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