Investigating the mechanisms underlying affective priming effects using a conditional pronunciation task

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 268-274

  Pecchinenda, Anna ^a   Ganteaume, Christiane ^a   Banse, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Pronunciation task; Spreading of activation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 37849188700     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.53.4.268     Document Type: Article

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