Physiological evidence that a masked unrelated intervening item disrupts semantic priming: Implications for theories of semantic representation and retrieval models of semantic priming

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-46

  Deacon, Diana ^a   Grose Fifer, Jillian ^a   Hewitt, Sean ^a   Nagata, Masanori ^a   Shelley Tremblay, John ^a   Yang, Chien Ming ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed representation; Interposition effect; Intervening words; Lag; N400; Priming; Retrieval models

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RECORDING; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 1542268993     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00285-2     Document Type: Article

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