The role of animacy in spatial transformations

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 982-993

  Yu, Alfred B ^a,b   Zacks, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149319840     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.7.982     Document Type: Article

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