Language comprehenders retain implied shape and orientation of objects

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1108-1114

  Pecher, Diane ^a   Van Dantzig, Saskia ^a   Zwaan, Rolf A ^a   Zeelenberg, Rene ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Memory; Sensorimotor processing; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RECOGNITION; TIME;

COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67651247620     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802633255     Document Type: Article

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