Unconscious semantic activation depends on feature-specific attention allocation

Cognition

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-95

  Spruyt, Adriaan ^a,b   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Everaert, Tom ^a   Hermans, Dirk ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Attention; Attitude activation; Attitudes; Semantic priming; Subliminal; Unconscious semantic activation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

AFFECT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81055156863     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.017     Document Type: Article

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