How far is near? Inferring distance from spatial descriptions

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 617-631

  Carlson, Laura A ^a   Covey, Eric S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STANDARDIZATION; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 27744558155     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960400023501     Document Type: Article

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