Temporal dynamics of the action-sentence compatibility effect

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 883-895

  Kaschak, Michael P ^a   Borreggine, Kristin L ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Language comprehension; Motor planning; Simulation; Theory of Event Coding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 47549088273     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701623852     Document Type: Article

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