Retrieval of concrete words involves more contextual information than abstract words: Multiple components for the concreteness effect

Brain and Language

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 251-258

  Xiao, Xin ^a   Zhao, Di ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Guo, Chun yan ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Concreteness effects; Directed forgetting; Event related potentials; Explicit memory; Implicit memory

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT WORD; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCRETE WORD; CONCRETENESS EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; RECALL; SEMANTICS; TIME; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858005674     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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