Short-term action intentions overrule long-term semantic knowledge

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-83

  van Elk, M ^a   van Schie, H T ^b   Bekkering, H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action intentions; Selection for action; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

BIOMECHANICS; CUES; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INTENTION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60849113983     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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