Unconscious primes activate motor codes through semantics

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 991-1000

  Reynvoet, Bert ^a   Gevers, Wim ^b   Caessens, Bernie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Masked priming; Semantic mediation; Stimulus response links

Indexed keywords

EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 27944482893     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.5.991     Document Type: Review

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