Mental Representation of Normal Subjects About the Sources of Knowledge in Different Semantic Categories and Unique Entities

Neuropsychology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 803-812

  Gainotti, Guido ^a   Ciaraffa, Francesca ^a   Silveri, Maria Caterina ^a   Marra, Camillo ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

living artifact categories; sensory motor model of semantic representations; sources of knowledge; unique entities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TACTILE MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 72149133917     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016352     Document Type: Article

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