Conceptual integration and metaphor: An event-related potential study

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 958-968

  Coulson, Seana ^a   Van Petten, Cyma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0036755833     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195780     Document Type: Article

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