Perceiving and remembering events cross-linguistically: Evidence from dual-task paradigms

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-82

  Trueswell, John C ^a   Papafragou, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic differences; Event perception; Eyetracking; Greek; Language and thought; Spatial language; Visual world

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951652236     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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