Congruence effect in semantic categorization with masked primes with narrow and broad categories

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 286-306

  Quinn, Wendy Maree ^a   Kinoshita, Sachiko ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Broad and narrow categories; Category congruence effect; Masked priming; Semantic categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649127272     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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