Top-down and bottom-up contributions to understanding sentences describing objects in motion

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Rueschemeyer, Shirley Ann ^a,b   Glenberg, Arthur M ^c   Kaschak, Michael P ^d   Mueller, Karsten ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Self referentiality; Sentence comprehension; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054094422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00183     Document Type: Article

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