Face (and nose) priming for book: The malleability of semantic memory

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-70

  Coane, Jennifer H ^a   Balota, David A ^b  

^a Colby College   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative models; Episodic priming; Feature models; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FACE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FACE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 78651090519     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000068     Document Type: Article

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