How does verb aspect constrain event representations?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 663-672

  Madden, Carol J ^a   Zwaan, Rolf A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; READING; SIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0041660632     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196106     Document Type: Article

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