The potato chip really does look like elvis! Neural hallmarks of conceptual processing associated with finding novel shapes subjectively meaningful

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2354-2364

  Voss, Joel L ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a   Paller, Ken A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual priming; explicit memory; perceptual learning; perceptual recognition; semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866057838     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr315     Document Type: Article

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