Priming via relational similarity: A copper horse is faster when seen through a glass eye

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-101

  Estes, Zachary ^a   Jones, Lara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual combination; Lexical similarity; Relation priming; Relational similarity; Semantic similarity; Thematic relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646819658     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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