Integrative Priming Occurs Rapidly and Uncontrollably During Lexical Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 112-130

  Estes, Zachary ^a   Jones, Lara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

associative priming; integrative priming; relational integration; semantic priming; word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

CUES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 62949140681     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014677     Document Type: Article

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