The semantic priming project

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1099-1114

  Hutchison, Keith A ^a   Balota, David A ^b   Neely, James H ^c   Cortese, Michael J ^d   Cohen Shikora, Emily R ^b   Tse, Chi Shing ^e   Yap, Melvin J ^f   Bengson, Jesse J ^g   Niemeyer, Dale ^h   Buchanan, Erin ⁱ  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Elsevier and Reed Elsevier   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Item differences; Large database; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; REPETITION PRIMING; SEARCH ENGINE; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA DISPLAY; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPETITION PRIMING; SEARCH ENGINE; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882840902     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0304-z     Document Type: Article

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