Making sense of abstract events: Building event schemas

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1221-1235

  Hard, Bridgette M ^a   Tversky, Barbara ^a   Lang, David S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIENCE; FILM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 33846018549     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193267     Document Type: Article

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