Effects of Contextual Similarity and Target-Repetition Proportion on Negative Priming in RT Distributional Analyses

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 180-192

  Tse, Chi Shing ^a   Hutchison, Keith A ^b   Li, Yongna ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional analyses; Episodic retrieval; Inhibition; Negative priming; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951540389     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019930     Document Type: Article

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