Contextual constraints in situation model construction: An investigation of age and reading span

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-34

  Madden, Carol J ^a   Dijkstra, Katinka ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age related expertise; Embodied cognition; Language comprehension; Perceptual simulations; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649095514     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580902927604     Document Type: Article

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