Colour language and colour cognition: Brown and Lenneberg revisited

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 412-430

  Agrillo, Christian ^a   Roberson, Debi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 67849122745     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802049247     Document Type: Article

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