Semantic Priming with Homonymous Nouns: Hints of Clarifying the Issue of Selective vs. Non-Selective Priming

Markus T. Jansen; Nina C. Jansen; Andreas Weber; Guillermo Hidalgo Gadea; Ehsan Ansari; Pascal Scheren

doi:10.5334/jeps.408

Semantic Priming with Homonymous Nouns: Hints of Clarifying the Issue of Selective vs. Non-Selective Priming

Journal of European Psychology Students

Volume 8 (2017): Issue 1

By: Markus T. Jansen, Nina C. Jansen, Andreas Weber, Guillermo Hidalgo Gadea, Ehsan Ansari and Pascal Scheren

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Keywords:

ambiguity,

selective access,

non-selective access,

priming,

lexical decision task

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