Beyond mean response latency: Response time distributional analyses of semantic priming

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 495-523

  Balota, David A ^a   Yap, Melvin J ^b   Cortese, Michael J ^c   Watson, Jason M ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional analysis; Lexical decision; Masked priming; Pronunciation; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849097719     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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