On the adaptive flexibility of evaluative priming

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 557-572

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Bluemke, Matthias ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Congruity effect; Congruity proportion effect; Cue utilization; Strategic influence

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AFFECT; ATTENTION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); REVERSAL LEARNING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80053311193     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0056-x     Document Type: Article

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