Shared features dominate semantic richness effects for concrete concepts

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-19

  Grondin, Ray ^a   Lupker, Stephen J ^a   McRae, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lexical concepts; Modality specific conceptual representations; Number of features effect; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249141419     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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