Attentional factors in conceptual congruency

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1051-1077

  Santiago, Julio ^a   Ouellet, Marc ^a   Román, Antonio ^a   Valenzuela, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ATOM; Attention; Coherent Working Models; Common coding; Conceptual recycling; Embodiment; Mental metaphor; Symbol grounding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTION; HUMAN; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84864347534     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01240.x     Document Type: Article

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