Feeling the past: The absence of experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on text processing

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1366-1372

  Traxler, Matthew J ^a   Foss, Donald J ^b   Podali, Ruchira ^b   Zirnstein, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Context effects; Discourse processing; ESP; Language comprehension; Parapsychology; Precognition; PSI; Psycholinguistics; Retrocausation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HUMAN; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; REPETITION PRIMING; STANDARDS; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; REPETITION PRIMING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84870485283     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0232-2     Document Type: Article

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