Simulating Realism in Language Comprehension

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2884-2889

  Holmes, Kevin J ^a   Wolff, Phillip ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

language comprehension; mental simulation; realism; word meaning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; PHOTOGRAPHY;

HIGH RESOLUTION; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; LINE DRAWINGS; MENTAL SIMULATION; OBJECTS RECOGNITION; PERCEPTUAL INFORMATION; PERCEPTUAL REALITIES; PERFORMANCE; REALISM; WORD MEANING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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