Inhibition within a reference frame during the interpretation of spatial language

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 384-407

  Carlson, Laura A ^a   Van Deman, Shannon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Axes; Inhibition; Reference frames; Selective access; Spatial language; Spatial terms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 36849078615     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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