Processing of color words activates color representations

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 383-389

  Richter, Tobias ^a   Zwaan, Rolf A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Color; Embodied cognition; Experiential view; Language comprehension; Stroop effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349203904     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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