Semantically convergent and semantically divergent priming in the cerebral hemispheres: Lexical decision and semantic judgment

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 585-597

  Faust, Miriam ^a   Lavidor, Michal ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Hemispheric asymmetry; Lexical ambiguity; Multiple priming; Neural basis of behavior; Visual fields

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 1642347136     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(03)00172-1     Document Type: Article

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