The comprehension of sentences involving quantity information affects responses on the up-down axis

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 708-714

  Sell, Andrea J ^a   Kaschak, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Language comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864099706     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0263-5     Document Type: Article

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