Spatial tapping interferes with the processing of linguistic spatial relations

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 259-271

  Noordzij, Matthijs L ^a,b   Van Der Lubbe, Rob H J ^a   Neggers, Sebastiaan F W ^a   Postma, Albert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 11144273903     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087449     Document Type: Article

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