How to switch on and switch off semantic priming effects for natural and artifactual categories: Activation processes in category memory depend on focusing specific feature dimensions

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 579-585

  Bermeitinger, Christina ^a,b   Wentura, Dirk ^b   Frings, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifactual categories; Category specificity; Concept representation; Mind set; Natural categories; Semantic knowledge; Semantic memory; Semantic priming; Task set

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052883197     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0067-z     Document Type: Article

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