Priming of abstract letter representations may be universal: The case of Arabic

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 685-690

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b   Perea, Manuel ^c   Mallouh, Reem Abu ^a  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Letters; Masked priming; Reading; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864102919     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0260-8     Document Type: Article

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