Specifying attentional top-down influences on subsequent unconscious semantic processing

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-68

  Martens, Ulla ^a,b   Kiefer, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Automatic processes; Semantic priming; Subliminal perception; Unconscious cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950323737     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0067-3     Document Type: Article

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