Semantic priming effects from single words in a lexical decision task

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-202

  Noguera, Carmen ^a   Ortells, Juan J ^a   Abad, María J F ^b   Carmona, Encarnación ^a   Daza, M Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Negative semantic priming; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248595486     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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