Dissociating the effects of automatic activation and explicit expectancy on reaction times in a simple associative learning task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 955-965

  Perruchet, Pierre ^a   Cleeremans, Axel ^b   Destrebecqz, Arnaud ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automatism; Conditioning; Dissociations; Expectancy; Learning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33748432550     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.955     Document Type: Article

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