High-dimensional semantic space accounts of priming

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 534-552

  Jones, Michael N ^a   Kintsch, Walter ^a   Mewhort, Douglas J K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mediated priming; Models of word meaning; Semantic priming; Semantic space models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750085037     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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