Colorless Green Ideas (Can) Prime Furiously

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 364-369

  Yee, Eiling ^a   Ahmed, Sarah Z ^b   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^b  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; color; context; embodied cognition; individual differences; priming; semantic attributes; semantic features; semantic memory; semantic representations; word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859816552     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611430691     Document Type: Article

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