Rapid parallel semantic processing of numbers without awareness

Cognition

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 136-147

  Van Opstal, Filip ^a,b   de Lange, Floris P ^c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Ensemble coding; Numerical cognition; Subliminal priming; Summary statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955884747     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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