Testing the theory of embodied cognition with subliminal words

Cognition

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 303-320

  Ansorge, Ulrich ^a,b   Kiefer, Markus ^c   Khalid, Shah ^b   Grassl, Sylvia ^a   König, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Masking; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBODIED COGNITION THEORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955175594     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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