Reversing the Emotional Stroop Effect Reveals That It Is Not What It Seems: The Role of Fast and Slow Components

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 382-392

  McKenna, Frank P ^a   Sharma, Dinkar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 1542267841     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.2.382     Document Type: Article

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