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Word association task responses prime associations in subsequent trials

David Playfoot Orcid Logo, Ondrej Burysek

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Swansea University Authors: David Playfoot Orcid Logo, Ondrej Burysek

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/17470218241239321

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The word association task has been used extensively in psychological and linguistic research as a way of measuring connections between words in the mental lexicon. Interpretation of word association data has assumed that responses represent the strongest association between cue word and response, bu...

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ISSN: 1747-0218 1747-0226
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