Root versus roof: Automatic activation of location information during word processing

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1180-1188

  Lachmair, Martin ^a   Dudschig, Carolin ^a   De Filippis, Monica ^a   de la Vega, Irmgard ^a   Kaup, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Language comprehension; Language memory interactions; Word meaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355123382     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0158-x     Document Type: Article

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