The nature of semantic priming: Effects of the degree of semantic similarity between primes and targets in Spanish

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-184

  Sánchez Casas, Rosa ^a,b   Ferré, Pilar ^a   García Albea, José E ^a   Guasch, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b IISPV   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC PRIMING; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 32644452435     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440500183830     Document Type: Article

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