Where there's a will-there's no intuition. The unintentional basis of semantic coherence judgments

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1032-1048

  Topolinski, Sascha ^a   Strack, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence judgments; Intention; Intuition; Memory; Remote associates; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149155766     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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