Prime Diagnosticity in Short-Term Repetition Priming: Is Primed Evidence Discounted, Even When It Reliably Indicates the Correct Answer?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 257-281

  Weidemann, Christoph T ^a   Huber, David E ^b   Shiffrin, Richard M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

perceptual identification; prime diagnosticity; prime validity effect; repetition priming; short term priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 40949104773     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.2.257     Document Type: Article

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