Ken den Heyer, Kevin Briand, Priming Single Digit Numbers: Automatic Spreading Activation Dissipates as a Function of Semantic Distance, The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 315-340
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