The influence of emotion on lexical processing: Insights from RT distributional analysis

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 526-533

  Yap, Melvin J ^a   Seow, Cui Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Reaction time analysis; Semantics; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EMOTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897384373     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0525-x     Document Type: Article

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