Can Imageability Help Us Draw the Line Between Storage and Composition?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 849-866

  Prado, Elizabeth L ^a,b   Ullman, Michael T ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

composition; imageability; inflectional morphology; sex differences; storage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650736184     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015286     Document Type: Article

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