A semantic subsystem of visual attributes

Neurocase

Volumn 4, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 353-370

  Coltheart, Max ^a   Inglis, Lesley ^a   Cupples, Linda ^a   Michie, Pat ^b   Bates, Andree ^a   Budd, Bill ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Category specificities; Comprehension; Semantics; Visual semantics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SEMANTICS; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISION;

EID: 0031698244     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554799808410632     Document Type: Article

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