Nice wor_ if you can get the wor_: Subliminal semantic and form priming in fragment completion

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 520-532

  Schütz, Kristina ^a   Schendzielarz, Ilka ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^b   Vorberg, Dirk ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fragment completion; Masked visual priming; Subliminal semantic activation; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 34249904393     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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