Language and imagery: Effects of language modality

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1574, 2005, Pages 1859-1863

  Vigliocco, Gabriella ^a   Vinson, David P ^a   Woolfe, Tyron ^b   Dye, Matthew W G ^c   Woll, Bencie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Imagery; Language; Semantics; Sign languages

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SOUND; SPEECH;

EID: 26244441534     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3169     Document Type: Article

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