Unconscious semantic priming in the absence of partial awareness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 942-953

  Abrams, Richard L ^a   Grinspan, Jessica ^a  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Masking; Priming; Subliminal; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; VISUAL MASKING;

AFFECT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 36049044556     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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