Masked priming effects in semantic categorization are independent of category size

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-235

  Van Den Bussche, Eva ^a   Reynvoet, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Category size; Congruency effect; Masked priming; Semantic categorization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34547310372     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.54.3.225     Document Type: Article

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