From left to right: Processing acronyms referring to names of political parties activates spatial associations

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2202-2219

  van Elk, Michiel ^a   van Schie, Hein T ^b   Bekkering, Harold ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Leftright continuum; Politics; Spatial associations; Theory of conceptual metaphor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ABBREVIATIONS AS TOPIC; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POLITICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149246061     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.495160     Document Type: Article

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