Either or neither, but not both: Locating the effects of masked primes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1656, 2009, Pages 515-521

  Schlaghecken, Friederike ^a   Klapp, Stuart T ^b   Maylor, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimanual responses; Free choice; Inhibition; Masked motor priming; Nogo

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; INHIBITION; MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

EID: 58149106098     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0933     Document Type: Article

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