Enhanced visual awareness for morality and pajamas? Perception vs. memory in 'top-down' effects

Cognition

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 409-416

  Firestone, Chaz ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive penetrability; Memory; Modularity; Morality; Perception; Top down effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL MEMORY; FEMALE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84921495461     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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