"The drawer is still closed": Simulating past and future actions when processing sentences that describe a state

Brain and Language

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 159-166

  Kaup, Barbara ^a   Lüdtke, Jana ^b   Maienborn, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjectival passive; Embodiment; Language comprehension

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77649339616     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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