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Semantic priming : perspectives from memory and word recognition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McNamara, Timothy P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Psychology Press, 2005.
Series:Essays in cognitive psychology.
Subjects:
Semantics > Psychological aspects.
Priming (Psychology)
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • What is semantic priming and why should anyone care about it?
  • Spreading activation models
  • Becker's verification model
  • Compound-cue models
  • Distributed network models
  • Multistage activation models
  • Other models
  • Methodological issues
  • Automatic versus strategic priming
  • Associative versus "pure" semantic priming
  • Mediated versus direct priming
  • Effects of lag
  • Forward versus backward priming
  • Conscious versus unconscious priming
  • Prime-task effect
  • List context effects
  • Word frequency, stimulus quality, and stimulus repetition
  • Cognitive neuroscience of semantic priming
  • What have we learned about semantic priming and what does the future hold?