A time course view of sentence priming effects

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 383-405

  Paul, Stephen T ^a   Kellas, George ^b  

^a ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehension; lexical ambiguity; semantic priming; time course

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 4444254033     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOPR.0000039547.53802.7a     Document Type: Article

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