Associative priming in a masked perceptual identification task: Evidence for automatic processes

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1157-1173

  Pecher, Diane ^a,b,c   Zeelenberg, René ^a   Raaijmakers, Jeroen G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATISM; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; VISION;

ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATISM; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0040670182     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980244000143     Document Type: Article

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