Differences in semantic and translation priming across languages: The role of language direction and language dominance

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 953-965

  Basnight Brown, Dana M ^a   Altarriba, Jeanette ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SPAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 34548659116     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193468     Document Type: Article

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