How Abstract Is Symbolic Thought?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 720-733

  Landy, David ^a   Goldstone, Robert L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

embodied cognition; mathematics; perceptual grouping; relational reasoning; symbolic processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; THINKING;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; THINKING;

EID: 34548161419     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.4.720     Document Type: Article

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