Simulating visibility during language comprehension

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 229-236

  Yaxley, Richard H ^a   Zwaan, Rolf A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language comprehension; Mental simulation; Object visibility; Perceptual representations

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISIBILITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COGNITION; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547665403     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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