Head up, foot down: Object words orient attention to the objects' typical location: Research report

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-97

  Estes, Zachary ^a   Verges, Michelle ^b   Barsalou, Lawrence W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEAD; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS;

ATTENTION; CUES; HEAD; HUMANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 38949155877     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02051.x     Document Type: Article

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