Long-term priming of neighbours biases the word recognition process: Evidence from a lexical decision task

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 275-284

  Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Raaijmakers, Jeroen G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33947502539     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/cjep2006025     Document Type: Review

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