RT distribution analysis of category congruence effects with masked primes

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1324-1334

  Kinoshita, Sachiko ^a   Hunt, Louise ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AWARENESS; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 54949112439     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.7.1324     Document Type: Article

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