Word associations are formed incidentally during sentential semantic integration

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-71

  Prior, Anat ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Context; Incidental learning; Semantic; Sentence integration; Word association

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 36849089591     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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