Dual coding theory and the mental lexicon

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-230

  Paivio, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common coding; Concreteness abstractness; Context; Imagen; Logogen; Mental representation; Multimodal coding; Verbal coding

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650261438     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.5.2.04pai     Document Type: Article

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