Up and down, front and back: Movement and meaning in the vertical and sagittal axes

Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 214-224

  Koch, Sabine C ^a   Glawe, Stefanie ^a   Holt, Daniel V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directional movement; Embodied memory; Embodiment; Sagittal axis; Spatial bias; Vertical axis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960203439     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000065     Document Type: Article

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