Similarity and proximity: When does close in space mean close in mind?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1047-1056

  Casasanto, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; STIMULATION;

CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; METAPHOR; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 54949132881     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.6.1047     Document Type: Article

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