Cross-Modal Evaluative Priming: Emotional Sounds Influence the Processing of Emotion Words

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-208

  Scherer, Laura D ^a   Larsen, Randy J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic vigilance; Cross modal priming; Evaluative priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CROSS PRESENTATION; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AROUSAL; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SOUND;

EID: 79952843153     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022588     Document Type: Article

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