Moving words: Dynamic representations in language comprehension

Cognitive Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 611-619

  Zwaan, Rolf A ^a   Madden, Carol J ^a   Yaxley, Richard H ^a   Aveyard, Mark E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Implied motion; Language comprehension; Mental simulation; Perceptual representations; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942679325     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsci.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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