Semantic facilitation in category and action naming: Testing the message-congruency account

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 123-139

  Kuipers, Jan Rouke ^a   La Heij, Wido ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action naming; Categorization; Message congruency; Picture word task; Semantic facilitation; Semantic interference; Word production

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549041813     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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