A role for action knowledge in visual object identification

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1712-1723

  Desmarais, Geneviève ^a   Dixon, Mike J ^a   Roy, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SEMANTICS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 36149000142     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193504     Document Type: Article

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