When people are more logical under cognitive load dual task impact on scalar implicature

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 128-133

  De Neys, Wim ^a   Schaeken, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Executive processing; Implicatures; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MEMORY;

COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MEMORY;

EID: 34247127838     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.54.2.128     Document Type: Article

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