Divided attention modulates semantic activation: Evidence from a nonletter-level prime task

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2001-2011

  Otsuka, Sachio ^a   Kawaguchi, Jun ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION MODULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONSONANT; DIVIDED ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PITCH; PRIMING; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 38149139357     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192932     Document Type: Article

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