Nature and facts about natural and artifactual categories: Sex differences in the semantic priming paradigm

Brain and Language

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-163

  Bermeitinger, Christina ^a   Wentura, Dirk ^a   Frings, Christian ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifactual categories; Category specificity; Functional focus; Functional vs. perceptual judgment; Natural categories; Perceptual focus; Semantic knowledge; Semantic memory; Semantic priming; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TARGET VARIABLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 47649133777     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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