Evidence for long-term cross-language repetition priming in conceptual implicit memory tasks

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-94

  Zeelenberg, René ^a,b   Pecher, Diane ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilingual memory; Conceptual memory; Cross language priming; Language independence; Long term priming; Repetition priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038684778     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(03)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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