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Thematic thinking : the apprehension and consequences of thematic relations
- Zachary Estes, S. Golonka, Lara L. Jones
- Psychology
- 2011
A thematic relation is a temporal, spatial, causal, or functional relation between things that perform complementary roles in the same scenario or event. For example, cows and milk are related by a… Expand
Attributive and relational processes in nominal combination
- Zachary Estes
- Psychology
- 1 February 2003
Abstract The dual process theory of nominal (noun–noun) combination posits a relational process, in which a relation between concepts is inferred, as well as an attributive process, in which a… Expand
Head Up, Foot Down
- Zachary Estes, Michelle Verges, L. Barsalou
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 1 February 2008
Many objects typically occur in particular locations, and object words encode these spatial associations. We tested whether such object words (e.g., head, foot) orient attention toward the location… Expand
Integrative priming occurs rapidly and uncontrollably during lexical processing.
- Zachary Estes, Lara L. Jones
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology. General
- 1 February 2009
Lexical priming, whereby a prime word facilitates recognition of a related target word (e.g., nurse --> doctor), is typically attributed to association strength, semantic similarity, or compound… Expand
Freeze or flee? Negative stimuli elicit selective responding
- Zachary Estes, Michelle Verges
- Psychology, Medicine
- Cognition
- 1 August 2008
Humans preferentially attend to negative stimuli. A consequence of this automatic vigilance for negative valence is that negative words elicit slower responses than neutral or positive words on a… Expand
Emotion and memory: A recognition advantage for positive and negative words independent of arousal
- J. Adelman, Zachary Estes
- Psychology, Medicine
- Cognition
- 1 December 2013
Much evidence indicates that emotion enhances memory, but the precise effects of the two primary factors of arousal and valence remain at issue. Moreover, the current knowledge of emotional memory… Expand
Automatic vigilance for negative words in lexical decision and naming: comment on Larsen, Mercer, and Balota (2006).
- Zachary Estes, J. Adelman
- Psychology, Medicine
- Emotion
- 1 August 2008
An automatic vigilance hypothesis states that humans preferentially attend to negative stimuli, and this attention to negative valence disrupts the processing of other stimulus properties. Thus,… Expand
Integrative and semantic relations equally alleviate age-related associative memory deficits.
- Stephen P. Badham, Zachary Estes, E. Maylor
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychology and aging
- 1 March 2012
Two experiments compared effects of integrative and semantic relations between pairs of words on lexical and memory processes in old age. Integrative relations occur when two dissimilar and… Expand
Examining reports of mental health in adults with Williams syndrome.
- C. Stinton, K. Tomlinson, Zachary Estes
- Psychology, Medicine
- Research in developmental disabilities
- 2012
Prior research suggests that individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have a disposition towards anxiety. Information regarding this is typically derived from parents and carers. The perspectives of… Expand
"FORTUNATELY, I'M NO EINSTEIN": COMPARISON RELEVANCE AS A DETERMINANT OF BEHAVIORAL ASSIMILATION AND CONTRAST
- Robyn A. Leboeuf, Zachary Estes
- Psychology
- 1 December 2004
We investigated the determinants of whether activated knowledge leads to behavioral assimilation or to contrast. Whereas early studies concluded that behavior assimilates to activated categories but… Expand
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