Attention unites form and function in spatial language

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 295-308

  Carlson, Laura A ^a   Regier, Terry ^b   Lopez, William ^a   Corrigan, Bryce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Function; Landmark; Spatial terms; Vectors

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL PARTS; GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION; LANDMARK; OBJECT FUNCTIONS; RECENT RESEARCHES; SPATIAL TERMS;

FUNCTIONS; VECTORS;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 51249132201     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15427633scc0604_1     Document Type: Article

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