The automatic access of emotion: Emotional Stroop effects in Spanish-English bilingual speakers

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1077-1090

  Sutton, Tina M ^a   Altarriba, Jeanette ^a   Gianico, Jennifer L ^a   Basnight Brown, Dana M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPAIN; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547499739     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930601054133     Document Type: Article

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