Activating basic category exemplars in sentence contexts: A dynamical account

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-113

  Ra̧czaszek Leonardi, Joanna ^a   Shapiro, Lewis P ^b   Tuller, Betty ^c   Kelso, J A Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category structure; On line semantic adaptation; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 38749134178     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-007-9061-z     Document Type: Article

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