The Instantiation Principle in Natural Categories

Memory

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 413-452

  Heit, Evan ^a   Barsalou, Lawrence W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0030183438     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096582196388915     Document Type: Article

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