The effect of grammatical gender on object categorization

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 449-460

  Cubelli, Roberto ^a   Paolieri, Daniela ^a   Lotto, Lorella ^b   Job, Remo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conceptual semantic knowledge; Grammatical gender; Lexical representation; Linguistic relativity; Object categorization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952436730     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021965     Document Type: Article

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