On the Nature and Scope of Featural Representations of Word Meaning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-130

  McRae, Ken ^a   De Sa, Virginia R ^b   Seidenberg, Mark S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031158032     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.126.2.99     Document Type: Article

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