Activating event knowledge

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-167

  Hare, Mary ^a   Jones, Michael ^b   Thomson, Caroline ^c   Kelly, Sarah ^c   McRae, Ken ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association; Event representation; Language comprehension; Semantic memory; Semantic priming; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL WORLD EVENT; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ASPECT; WORD RECOGNITION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149172075     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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