Is the Concreteness Effect a Result of Underlying Network Interconnectivity?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 479-497

  Gee, Nancy R ^b   Nelson, Douglas L ^b   Krawczyk, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0006162816     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1998.2627     Document Type: Article

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