Distractors of low activation can produce negative priming

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 979-989

  Chao, Hsuan Fu ^a   Yeh, Yei Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RELIABILITY; STIMULATION;

EID: 11144279999     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196875     Document Type: Article

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