Now you see it, now you don't: On turning semantic interference into facilitation in a stroop-like task

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 790-796

  Finkbeiner, Matthew ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical access; Masked priming; Picture word interference; Response selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; VISUAL MASKING; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; INTENTION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33845640942     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70419-2     Document Type: Article

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