On doing two things at once: Temporal constraints on actions in language comprehension

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1033-1043

  De Vega, Manuel ^a   Robertson, David A ^b   Glenberg, Arthur M ^c   Kaschak, Michael P ^d   Rinck, Mike ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TIME;

EID: 14844335684     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196879     Document Type: Review

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