Affective priming with pictures of emotional scenes: The role of perceptual similarity and category relatedness

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-18

  Avero, Pedro ^a   Calvo, Manuel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affective; Emotional processing; Perception; Pictures; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646182717     PISSN: 11387416     EISSN: 19882904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600005928     Document Type: Article

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