Linguistic and non-linguistic spatial categorization

Cognition

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 209-235

  Crawford, L Elizabeth ^a   Regier, Terry ^a   Huttenlocher, Janellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Linguistic; Non linguistic; Spatial categorization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS; STUDENT;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034659978     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00064-0     Document Type: Article

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