Categorical priming of famous person recognition: A hitherto overlooked methodological factor can resolve a long-standing debate

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 874-880

  Stone, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categories; List context; Person recognition; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 51249120514     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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