Sandwich Priming: A Method for Overcoming the Limitations of Masked Priming by Reducing Lexical Competitor Effects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 618-639

  Lupker, Stephen J ^a   Davis, Colin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

lexical competition; masked priming; orthographic coding; sandwich priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 65749102662     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015278     Document Type: Article

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