Influence of spatial attention on conscious and unconscious word priming

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-138

  Ortells, Juan J ^a   Frings, Christian ^b   Plaza Ayllon, Vanesa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative strength; Attention and awareness; Parafoveal priming; Unconscious semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL ATTENTION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CUES; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPAIN; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84857505498     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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