Spreading activation in an attractor network with latching dynamics: Automatic semantic priming revisited

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1339-1382

  Lerner, Itamar ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^a   Shriki, Oren ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed representations; Latching dynamics; Neural networks; Semantic priming; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84864182742     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12007     Document Type: Article

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