The mental representation of living and nonliving things: Differential weighting and interactivity of sensorial and non-sensorial features

Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 124-147

  Ventura, Paulo ^a   Morais, José ^b   Brito Mendes, Carlos ^a   Kolinsky, Régine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LIFE; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 14044252897     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210344000639     Document Type: Article

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