The influence of print exposure on the body-object interaction effect in visual word recognition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Hansen, Dana ^a   Siakaluk, Paul D ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Lexical conceptual processing; Motor simulation; Perceptual symbol systems; Print exposure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY OBJECT INTERACTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FACILITATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; READING; RECALL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84864210801     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00113     Document Type: Article

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