Semantic and translation priming from a first language to a second and back: Making sense of the findings

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 569-586

  Schoonbaert, Sofie ^a   Duyck, Wouter ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^a,b   Hartsuiker, Robert J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL FUNCTION; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; READING; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650375848     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.5.569     Document Type: Article

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