An examination of the distinction between nouns and verbs: Associations with two different kinds of motion

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1214-1232

  Kersten, Alan W ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0031770460     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201196     Document Type: Article

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