Qualitative differences in the representation of abstract versus concrete words: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 284-292

  Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a   Avilés, Alberto ^a   Afonso, Olivia ^a   Scheepers, Christoph ^b   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abstract and concrete concepts; Semantic representations; Visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58649119601     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

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