Encoding the world around us: Motor-related processing influences verbal memory

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1563-1570

  Madan, Christopher R ^a,b   Singhal, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Free recall; Functionality; Imageability; Manipulability; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RECALL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865349549     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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