Is a bear white in the woods? Parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 573-577

  Connell, Louise ^a   Lynott, Dermot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 67650550685     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.3.573     Document Type: Article

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