An investigation of time course of category and semantic priming

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-150

  Ray, Suchismita ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The State University of New Jersey

Author keywords

Category priming; Exemplar; Lexical decision; Semantic priming; Time course

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TIME;

CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44849099972     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.135.2.133-150     Document Type: Article

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