Unintentional and efficient relational priming.
If relational priming is responsible for unintentional analogical reasoning, as has been suggested, it too should occur unintentionally. However, results from previous studies are inconclusive - studies that use the sensicality task usually demonstrate unintentional priming, while lexical decision t...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 43; no. 6; pp. 866 - 879 |
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